Ghost in the system
So back around Decembers time-frame, my remote access to my home system stopped working. I was swamped busy, so I tossed up a VNC app(not what I usually use) and used that for the brief bits where i needed to get into my home system for something.
Today, I was at home and kept getting phonecalls/txts/emails for work and I finally got fed up and fired up my laptop so I'd have access to my corporate VM and tried to remote into my laptop(I prefer viewing the 17" laptop display on my 24" screen...easier on the eyes) and discovered that ANY sort of remote access, even within network, was not working. Puzzling that, since I haven't made any reconfigs in awhile. So I start diging...and discover that there are now Deny rules for the remote control app I use that are preventing traffic in or out. And I didn't set these either
Very weird. I blew away the entire ruleset and let it create new ones and now remote access works perfectly. Strange that it grew deny rules without me telling it to, but I guess its better than sprouting up systemwide allow rules.
Today, I was at home and kept getting phonecalls/txts/emails for work and I finally got fed up and fired up my laptop so I'd have access to my corporate VM and tried to remote into my laptop(I prefer viewing the 17" laptop display on my 24" screen...easier on the eyes) and discovered that ANY sort of remote access, even within network, was not working. Puzzling that, since I haven't made any reconfigs in awhile. So I start diging...and discover that there are now Deny rules for the remote control app I use that are preventing traffic in or out. And I didn't set these either
Very weird. I blew away the entire ruleset and let it create new ones and now remote access works perfectly. Strange that it grew deny rules without me telling it to, but I guess its better than sprouting up systemwide allow rules.