On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 6:12 PM Bill Stewart <redacted> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 2:25 PM Erik Soderquist wrote: > > > I've had weird instances where the Windows Firewall tools lied; I > > confirmed this by temporarily shutting down the Windows Firewall > > entirely, then restarting the service having problems and retesting. > > On retest, it worked fine, confirming it was the firewall causing the > > problem. > > I have never experienced anything like this, on any Windows version > for any application, after working with just about every version of > Windows firewall since its inception, in a number of different > organizations. > > In every case I thought the Windows firewall was the culprit, it turns > out it was my own misunderstanding.
I kind of envy that... I've had a litany of weird did not make sense quirks dealing with many aspects of Windows in my career. -- Erik -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
