MoBlock nuisances
After installing MoBlock from the homepage:
http://moblock-deb.sourceforge.net/
I noticed that it was interfering with many internet related activities. Specifically Ekiga, Pidgin (MSN, GoogleTalk, ICQ), Transmission, evolution with googlemail imap/smtp, pulseaudio...
I found that adding a few things to the defaults file has helped restore my connectivity
the file /etc/default/moblock should contain (after the header):
WHITE_TCP_OUT="http https 465 587 993 1863 5190 5222"
WHITE_UDP_IN="5000:5100 5353 7070 16382"
WHITE_UDP_OUT="3478:3479 5353 5000:5100"
After making the changes, a simple sudo moblock-control restart or sudo /etc/init.d/moblock restart did NOT help, a full reboot of the computer was necessary.
I hope this info is useful to somebody... It might also be overkill, so if somebody knows a better way I'd appreciate it.
explanation of the ports
465, 587, 993 gmail imap/smtp
1863-MSN,5190-ICQ,5222-XMPP(google chat)
[51413-Transmission (not recommended, see next post)]
5000:5100 7070 16382 SIP
3478:3479 also SIP stuff
5353 pulseaudio (actually Zeroconf/Avahi)
Last edited by SqRt7744; January 28th, 2009 at 10:44 PM.
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