Here's the problem:

Problem #1 = I use AOL (for now)

Aside from that...

Out of the blue, for no apparent reason, ZoneAlarm blocks my access to AOL (even with it in the allowed progams list) in the time that my dial up is "Requesting Network Attention" (to those who use AOL or know what position in the login sequence that I'm speaking of), giving the following reasons (apparently):
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The firewall has blocked routed traffic from 172.*.*.* (UDP Port 1054) to 172.#.#.# (UDP Port 7427). [*.*.* = my IP] [#.#.# = my AOL Dialup Connection]

Occurred: 3 times between 12/31/01 9:21:50 PM and 12/31/01 9:21:52 PM
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I wonder why this happens suddenly, when months of previous access has had no problems...this is the second time in a year that this has happenend...

Any explanations would be appreciated, as I assume that there's not much that I can do about it, aside from uninstall and reinstall ZA, and switch ISPs and connection speeds

Ouroboros