Failed to connect to www server

[BarryStiefel]

Failed to connect to www server



There are two possible reasons for this:

• Connection to the site timed out or was refused at the remote end
• The remote site either has a missing "reverse DNS" entry for it's IP

Check Point considers the latter a security risk and does not allow these sites to be contacted through the HTTP Security Server. Check Point also does not allow you to turn this feature off. Your options for working around this are:

• Contact the remote site in question to ask them to fix their reverse DNS entry
• Add an entry in your firewall's local host file and have the system resolve against the hosts file first (note: This is untested)
• Exclude the site in question from going through the security server by adding a rule above your security server rule that permits normal HTTP to the site

-- PhoneBoy - 01 Jan 2004

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