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Firewall blocking msgs from Microsoft (Foldershare)
Foldershare has been working well for me for a number of months, and I
thank the Microsoft Foldershare team for their hard work on this great
product.
I have a question regarding some messages I'm seeing in my hardware
firewall's log (see below). The firewall is blocking a number of
attempts by Microsoft to access ports on my system. I'm guessing that
these attempts are coming from the Foldershare server, and that they
are probably benign.
Although Foldershare seems to be working OK, I'm wondering if you can
verify that these requests are indeed coming from Foldershare, and
tell me if I should take any action to handle these probes by
adjusting settings in my firewall to let them through. Perhaps I can
improve performance (or at least alleviate my possibly paranoid
concerns).
Thank you,
Jon S.
Systems Analyst
P.S. These messages were logged immedately after booting up this
morning, immediately after the router came online and Foldershare
logged in. I've edited out my local IP addresses....
[info] Sun May 11 08:49:59 2008 Blocked incoming TCP connection
request from 65.55.24.40:3513 to xx.xx.xx.xx:6571
[info] Sun May 11 08:49:59 2008 Blocked incoming TCP connection
request from 65.55.24.40:3514 to xx.xx.xx.xx:8000
[info] Sun May 11 08:49:59 2008 Blocked incoming TCP connection
request from 65.55.24.40:3512 to xx.xx.xx.xx:443
[info] Sun May 11 08:49:59 2008 Blocked incoming TCP connection
request from 65.55.24.40:3511 to xx.xx.xx.xx:80
[info] Sun May 11 08:49:53 2008 Blocked incoming TCP connection
request from 65.55.24.40:3514 to xx.xx.xx.xx:8000
[info] Sun May 11 08:49:53 2008 Blocked incoming TCP connection
request from 65.55.24.40:3513 to xx.xx.xx.xx:6571
[info] Sun May 11 08:49:53 2008 Blocked incoming TCP connection
request from 65.55.24.40:3512 to xx.xx.xx.xx:443
[info] Sun May 11 08:49:53 2008 Blocked incoming TCP connection
request from 65.55.24.40:3511 to xx.xx.xx.xx:80
[info] Sun May 11 08:49:50 2008 Blocked incoming TCP connection
request from 65.55.24.40:3513 to xx.xx.xx.xx:6571
[info] Sun May 11 08:49:50 2008 Blocked incoming TCP connection
request from 65.55.24.40:3514 to xx.xx.xx.xx:8000
[info] Sun May 11 08:49:50 2008 Blocked incoming TCP connection
request from 65.55.24.40:3512 to xx.xx.xx.xx:443
[info] Sun May 11 08:49:50 2008 Blocked incoming TCP connection
request from 65.55.24.40:3511 to xx.xx.xx.xx:80
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