Problem:  After upgrading from Astaro 6.x to 7.x, Sophos updates began to fail from within the internal network.  Updates outside the network were successful.
Background:  Because Sophos is configured to update using the external internet address(update.domain.com), a NAT rule was created to redirect the public IP request to the internal address of the update server.  Sophos [...]

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Problem:  Had a DNAT setup in Astaro to reroute the external IP (DNS resolution) of my OWA server to it’s internal address.  However, it would time out every time.  Port 80 and other traffic worked fine, it seemed to be only an issue with https (443).
Solution:  Had to do a full NAT for this and [...]

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Problem: When trying to install Astaro Security Gateway software, ver 7.3, on a Gateway 9232T server.   The system boots off the CD just fine and detects all the hardware but seems to time-out during the “verifying checksums” portion of the installation and I then get the error message below:
Installation Failed: Please remove CD-ROM and restart [...]

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Problem:  All of a sudden, audio streaming radio stations stopped working using Astaro version 6.312. Also noticed some other sites were having issues.  The problem was that that they were sites that did browser checks and then would error out saying that active scripting needed to be enabled.  Didn’t realize it at first but both [...]

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Problem: Using Astaro content filter, we were having issues with people using anonymous proxies to bypass the filter using HTTPS (port 443) instead of standard port 80.  Turns out that the Astaro content filter only processes port 80 traffic, thus leaving a pretty big hole for us to fill.  I could use packet filter rules [...]

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