I suspect that the first impression you might have is "this bloke is leafy for trying to use AOL". OK, I'll take the lumps, but it's not me, it's a very important client.... my wife. Why we are using AOL when we have a cable ISP is a long, heartwarming, yet quite boring story so I'll spare you the details.
I just got everything up and running this morning when I heard this little warning voice in my head saying that if AOL didn't connect I was nowhere near done. Sure enough, AOL just hangs indefinitely and then pops up a cheery little message saying that the connection timed out.
I did a bit of poking around on the net and found a list of ports that had to be open along with a caveat that if you open these ports AOL is not responsible. (Or something along that line). I tried to create a service called AOL with TCP and UDP ports open like below:
1024:65538 5190:5193
And changed my packet filter rules to "any". It didn't work.
They also mentioned that port 443 should be open, which it already is. Then they say something about ICMP type 3 code 4 fragmentation needed.
Interestingly, I couldn't even load the AOL homepage in my browser. And I had the Astaro page open; it hung up when I tried to log in.
So, I hate to bother you all with AOL junk but it's the joy I live with so I thought I'd spread it around. If I find an answer before someone posts it, I'll return to here and let you know what I have discovered.
Cheers,
Bill
PS on a side note, are there any settings that you change that require you to restart a service? It's not unheard of in Linux, as you know.
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