Messages in this thread |  | | From | ulmo@q ... | Subject | Wha? 1.99.6 (pre2.0.6): no dragons alive! | Date | 20 May 1996 13:56:13 -0400 |
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I've tried TCP ports 23, 25, 79, 80, 119 ... all connection refused.
This being obviously unacceptable, in frustration and annoyance I didn't even bother to diagnose it and just chalked it off to the general unreliability of the entire pre2.0 series & reverted to my patched pre2.0.5 (1.99.5) (the patch being to reverse the alias problems with net/core/dev.c introduced in that version).
I'll note that there were some outbound connections; inbound seemed affected.
Of course, what with most of my activity being inbound-related (X, NNTP, SMTP, WWW), the one Netscape connection that did work was pretty boring to me.
I really hope that 2.0 ends up being more reliable than 1.3. These 1.99's are awful (besides which they break my automatic new version fetch build & install script). I have a question: is this 1.99 series like isotretinoin, which makes the acne get worse before it's cured (as in all the pimples come to the surface while they exit the body), or is this more like alcohol, making one feel ever-so-temporarily better before getting direly ill & sick & leading a path towards much hastened demise? I'm trying to say it politely: are experiments being done in 1.99 (aka pre2.0)?
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