- Anton P Nym
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- Exalted Mythic Member
Here's another guess... you were accessing bungie.net when the forums were acting up, the forums kicked some corrupted packets at your system, and the firewall looked at the packets and matched them to an exploit known to be used in Denial of Service attacks. *Bam!* Up goes the blockage.
I have NIS myself, and every now and then it errs to the side of caution and flags network faults as potential attacks. You can avoid this in the future by making bungie.net a "trusted" site in your NIS preferences... fire up the NIS interface, select "personal firewall", click on "configure", then select the "networking" tab. Select the "Trusted" option on that page, then click the "add" button at the bottom. Make sure the "individually" radio button is selected on the page that pops up, and put "www.bungie.net" into the address bar at the bottom. Then click "okay".
NIS will never autoblock a network address listed as a Trusted computer. The only risk is if someone corrupts your DNS to redirect "www.bungie.net" requests elsewhere, but I think NIS will warn you if an application tries to do that.
-- Steve hopes this will help... but you're probably safe leaving it alone entirely. NIS only sets 30-minute blockages and won't automatically add computers to its "Restricted" list.