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From: Bill Stewart <bstewart@iname.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: sshd broken by seemingly trivial network change
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 16:11:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANV9t=RWd6ii29V17BQs=UhEo0AdGJs539W8YfQ=ypZcMOmFYg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACoZoo3bjp0MJy5jKoKtLEKqaBkQ8xbsB9Q8_8ErAG-9Wj7DpQ@mail.gmail.com>

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.

Bill

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-17 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <5dde4c43-e438-a4b3-95c9-097f395066bd.ref@bellsouth.net>
2020-12-17 20:51 ` Charles Russell
2020-12-17 21:09   ` Brian Inglis
2020-12-17 21:23   ` Bill Stewart
2020-12-17 21:24   ` Erik Soderquist
2020-12-17 23:11     ` Bill Stewart [this message]
2020-12-19  0:17       ` Erik Soderquist

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