Topic: Puzzled: can't access some https sites but others OK

[icpix]

I can't access my domains' cpanel (to check the DNS pointers etc). It's a https site so I've tried accessing some of my shopping accounts' https areas. Maplin is OK, so is Viking and their cookies are remembering who I am even when not in the https areas. So why cannot even bring up the first (login) page of my cpanel area? Just get a (DNS) time out using either FF1.0.6 or IE6.0 browsers. In Mozilla the error message is that the 'The operation timed out when attempting to contact foo.bah'.

Have a workstation attached to the ethernet port of a broadband router and working behind the router's firewall and DHCP. No email, nor sites, as I can't seem to (properly) configure my trusty SME Server 6.0.1-01 to utilised its new broadband connection:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=28190.0

Any ideas?

----best wishes, Robert

[icpix]

Turned on the router's event log, saw a load of port 8443 entries for my workstation's IP, and added a manual rule to allow this outbound only. Now I can access my cpanel;~)

Port 8443... was this a gotcha or is it normal thing?

----best wishes, Robert