cygwin/x and zonealarm firewall

[Arturus Magi]

BJ Garman wrote:
> I saw on the website that some users had problems getting cygwin/x to 
> run properly with ZoneAlarm firewall by zonelabs to work. I myself 
> played around with it and found that it can be made to work easily by 
> setting a few simple things within your zonealarm firewall. Cygwin/x 
> must be able to act as a server and must be able to use its default ip 
> addressing.

It's not that simple.  ZoneAlarm implements it's security by replacing 
the Winsock with it's own code.  In some cases this irreparably breaks 
programs that depend on the Winsock, like Cygwin/X.

ZoneAlarm 4.5 works fine, but ZoneAlarm 5 doesn't, as far as being able 
to run X.  Other programs work with ZA 5 but not 4.5.  Some simply don't 
work with either.