Java Sockets and firewalls

[nationavon]

I have an interesting problem. I wrote a java application that connects through a firewall to a server on the internet using a socket. Lets say for instance I am connecting to 216.109.127.60 on port 25 and my application is running on 10.0.0.10. If I disable access to port 25 for 10.0.0.10 my application doesn't fail the socket connection. It is almost like my socket is connected to the firewall instead of 216.109.127.60. Does anyone know a way around this?

Nathan