Xeex Question

[lucasbuck]

Running Peer Block I keep getting a block on Destination: 207.246.207.*:* which I think is Astraweb. I'm running SABnzd. It's TCP. Is that blocking a function of SABnzd that I need to allow? It's listed as Xeex but not sure what that means. Thanks for any help.

[shypike]

SABnzbd kinda needs a connection to a Usenet server if you want it to do something useful
So if you actually have an Astraweb account it would be nice if Astraweb wasn't blocked.
Otherwise it doesn't matter.

[lucasbuck]

That's what I was asking, because Sab seems to be downloading fine from Astraweb. And I don't know what Xeex is. So I'm not sure what's being blocked.

[shypike]

http://xeex.com/
Unless it's your ISP, SABnzbd doesn't need or use it.

[lucasbuck]

That's the weird thing (sorry, don't mean to be a pain). The range says Xeex, but the Destination that gets blocked is 207.246.207.168:199 which resolves to Astraweb and it says it's blocking it. But the downloads seem to work fine. I just don't know what it's blocking.

[pobox]

The name 'us.news.astraweb.com' resolves to IP addresses in two ranges, 207.246.207.* and 216.151.153.*

If you have opened more than one connection to Astraweb, there could be both open and blocked connections. Is Peer Block blocking the other Astraweb range?

A Whois Lookup on any Astraweb IP brings up info for Xeex.

[lucasbuck]

I didn't open or close any ports specifically. In SAB I just specified news.astraweb.com as my host. Testing the server doesn't trigger anything, but when I start to download something I get a blast in Peerblock blocking my computer (running through several ports) to 207.246.207.120:199 TCP. Maybe it finally gets through on a port? Like I said, seems to start downloading, I'm just curious what that blast of blocks is doing.

[shypike]

Unless you're actually set this address for a Usenet, SABnzbd isn't going to use it.
Peerblock isn't telling you which program is doing the network access.
You'd need something like ZoneAlarm for that.