RouteSentry & DDProxy Question

[Gatecrasher]

I've set up route sentry on a principal pc with 2 raspppoe connections for local and international isp accounts, and I'm sharing it all via a wireless router and ddproxy. I've set up all the apps on the network pcs to use the proxy, and created pop3 & smtp tunnels for email apps. Everything is working brilliantly, except for one exasperating thing: I can receive mail via the pop3 tunnel but I cannot send any mail out via the smtp tunnel. The apps on all the machines tell me that the server is unavailable or is refusing smtp connections.

I have set local and remote ports to 25 and provided the correct smtp server name. But no joy.

Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this and/or how I can get around it. Having come so far (and having almost ripped all my hair out) to get my network routing to my satisfaction, it would be a shame to stumble at the last hurdle.

I may try a different smtp server, but if that fails I'm stuck.

EDIT: Tried several smtp servers with the same result. HELP!!!

 

[killadoob]

what smtp server are you using?

have u tried smtp.openweb.co.za?

 

[Gatecrasher]

what smtp server are you using?

have u tried smtp.openweb.co.za?

I normally use a hosting (afrihost) mail server, but I also tried stmp.openweb.co.za and smtp.saix.net. They all give the same result which leads me to conclude that the problem lies somewhere with the proxy.

 

[Wynsam]

I had a similar issue. Change the outgoing ports on the machines connecting to the proxy machine to 26.

On the proxy machine set the tunnel in on 26 and out on 25 on DD proxy.

 

[Gatecrasher]

I had a similar issue. Change the outgoing ports on the machines connecting to the proxy machine to 26.

On the proxy machine set the tunnel in on 26 and out on 25 on DD proxy.

Thanks, will try that and report back!

EDIT: That worked! Now working fine on my hosting email account!!

So now I have all traffic from 10 machines being routed to either local isp or international isp without having to set up route sentry and rasppoe connections on each of the network machines. Magic!

Big thanks to antibody for the apps. Check is in the mail.

 

[Gatecrasher]

I seem to have a problem in that DDProxy stops responding after a while, and takes up all the cpu available on one of my pc's threads. When I close the process the error seems to transfer to explorer.exe. Only logging out of the user account, or rebooting clears the problem.

If I keep the DDproxy window open, however, it does the same thing, but explorer.exe is fine once I close it DDProxy down.

Having DDProxy sieze up every half hour puts a spanner in the works. Has anyone else had a problem like this? I'm running it now with the minimum of features. I'll add features one by one to see which one, if any, may be causing the probelm...

 

[Wynsam]

DD Proxy

Hi there

We have not had any such issues here. Very occasionally the two programs need to be closed and opened again due to non responsiveness but never to the extent that they hog the processor.

 

[Gatecrasher]

Hi there

We have not had any such issues here. Very occasionally the two programs need to be closed and opened again due to non responsiveness but never to the extent that they hog the processor.

It's strange. I had the same problem running Openrouter (looks like similar code - same author?) on the same box. But Openrouter seems to work fine on my laptop. It is clearly machine specific. I occassionally have this problem with other tasktray applications too.

If I don't find a solution, I'm going to use another box as the proxy server.

 

[Gatecrasher]

I have found that if I have "Show local internet hosts" and "Show International internet hosts" checked in the Traffic tab DDProxy eventually hangs within 15-30 minutes. Without them checked it continues to work fine. Weird!

 

[Gatecrasher]

I cleaned up some of the background tasks on my PC (had a lot of unnecessary junk running) and now this configuration is working perfectly. I'm pretty sure the problem was caused by an unstable Creative X-FI app.

I think the ultimate would be to have a dedicated internet server on the WAN side of the router, but until I find the energy and courage to set something like that up, this works extremely well.

Like many, I thought the only way to use Routesentry on a network was to have each pc run routesentry with their own raspppoe connections to the web. This solution is certainly a lot simpler. Sure, you have to set up the proxy on each of the network pc's, and the email is a bit fussy. But it is a once off operation. Now, at least, if I change ISP accounts, I only have to change it on the proxy pc. And I won't run into any issues with concurrent connections.

With DDProxy running I can more easily monitor the internet traffic and control what my kids get up to on the net. It also blocks out a host of adware and spyware hosts.

Thanks again to Antibody for the great software.

 

[Gatecrasher]

Struggled today with FTP through DDProxy.

But I found that if I set up a port 21 tunnel to my ftp site, all I had to do on the network PCs is to disallow passive FTP. No other changes were necessary.