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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.