Re: Firewall Locks Windows Version

Stephen McConnell schrieb:
> No Tino, PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMING is an attitude.  I've been
> programming since 1974, both Open Source AND Paid Programming.  For the
> USAF, Private Industry and as an IBM Global Services Consultant and now
> on my own personal Open Source Project.
... yada yada...


well well... there was no childish comment unless you started with the
professinal programming in all caps. You use crappy OS and extend it
with even crappier third party software and then moan when things
start to get nasty ;) Its not Daves fault that gethostbyname() on
windows uses DNS subroutine when it has to look up a simple IP
address. Its also not the fault of Dave you have a strange configured
"personal firewall". Its just not Daves business. The application
works fine in the environment it was written for. There was
a bugreport and a fix for using unix sockets - which was really an
improvement.

I dont think adding a regex routine just to find out a shortcut
for translating a literal string which means an IP-address
is worth the effort - think that "professional programmers"
take efficiency in account. And adding a bunch of code just
for very very rare use cases for a function which should be
provided by the OS is rarely effective.

I wonder if windows telnet implementation works differently. I really
doubt it.

I'm sorry if I stepped on your feet.