# Answer your first connection prompt, and what each lifetime means

> When FireAI shows a connection prompt on your Mac, understand what the Block and Allow choices mean and how long each answer is kept.

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**Dónde en FireAI:** A prompt window, shown whenever an app reaches somewhere with no matching rule

Understand exactly what you’re approving the first time FireAI asks.

## When FireAI asks

In Alert mode, the first time an app tries to reach a destination with no rule for it yet, FireAI pauses that one connection and shows a prompt: the app’s icon and name, the destination, and its country and company when FireAI can tell.

> **Warning:** If the app isn’t signed by a known developer, or its signature changed since it was signed, the prompt says so: “This app isn’t from a verified developer” or “This app has been modified since it was signed. Be careful.”

## Block or Allow

Two buttons: Block and Allow. FireAI highlights whichever one it leans toward, from simple signals like a known tracker domain — the choice is always yours to make.

## How long the answer lasts

Click Options before you decide, to choose how long your answer sticks:

- Just this once — only this one connection; nothing is saved.
- Until the app quits — kept while the app keeps running; FireAI asks again the next time it opens.
- Until I restart — kept until you restart this Mac.
- Always — a permanent rule you can find and change later in Rules.

And which address it covers:

- Only this address — this exact host only.
- The whole website — this domain and every subdomain.
- This server (IP) only — this one IP address.
- Anywhere — every destination for this app.

> **Note:** Without a licence, every answer applies just this once, even if you pick Always — buy a licence to have FireAI remember answers as rules.

## See why FireAI is asking

Click Details for the exact address, port, how the name was learned, the app’s code-signing status, and — if the on-device AI is turned on — which way it leans and why. When FireAI has background on that kind of destination, a Why block this? button explains what that kind of server usually sends and why people tend to block it — see [“Why block this?”](https://hisnlabs.com/fireai/en/docs/why-block-this) for more.

> **Note:** If you don’t answer before the countdown runs out, FireAI uses your default choice from Settings, just this once, and asks again next time.

## Sigue leyendo

- [Install the FireAI Mac firewall and finish Setup](https://hisnlabs.com/fireai/es-mx/docs/install-and-finish-setup.md)
- [Block an app’s internet access on Mac, or just one company or domain](https://hisnlabs.com/fireai/es-mx/docs/block-an-app-or-a-company.md)
- ["Why block this?": what a destination usually sends, and why people block it](https://hisnlabs.com/fireai/es-mx/docs/why-block-this.md)

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