> How do I tell Zone Alarm to allow connections to port 3050 to go through to
> the FireBird server?

Usually, ZoneAlarm will ask you what you want to do
with an incoming/outgoing connection, if there isn't
any rule for that process so far.

> Alternatively - can I ditch Zone Alarm - BUT will I be protected then?

ditch = /dev/null ?

If you deinstall/remove the firewall, then you aren't
protected.



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Thomas Steinmaurer
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