Just a thought, have you installed a firewall lately, or changed some of the
settings on your existing one?
The very same thing has happened to me before.
Maybe some other settings have been altered?
Just to test, I would go through the lot and set everything to defaults.
Maybe worth a try.
M.Sayer

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