Ryan Leavengood wrote:

> I can only hope that ZoneAlarm and Panda are the only ones with this
> problem, and other firewalls can coexist with Ruby. Does anyone have a
> list of firewall software that DO work with Ruby? Or rather, who has a
> firewall installed and Ruby sockets are still working?

At http://www.ruby-talk.org/cgi-b in/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/147717
Ezra wrote:

>The other computer that didn't have this
>problem had the same winxp and ZoneAlarm updates, except that I
>had the paid version and he had the free version.

Under widoze 2000, the free version of ZoneAlarm doesn't block Ruby.
The o.p.'s program works correctly on my computer when ZoneAlarm
is active.