[plug] Rant about Windows Networking (or what I did this weekend)

[Leon Brooks]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:47, Bret Busby wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, skribe wrote:
>> It's official. Windows is shit.

>> I feel better now.

> So now we are a Windows list?

That would make us a shit list. No thanks.

I agree with Skribe.

Windows admins at one place-of-work were totally stumped about a Win2k 
Server machine which absolutely refused to return traffic sourced from 
the Internet.

*All* of the GUI network settings were perfect; the dawning of 
enlightenment (two days later) had to wait until I was in there doing 
other stuff, and being the trusting type that I am typed ROUTE PRINT 
into the command line to discover that the default route was really to 
127.0.0.1 rather than what the GUI said.

Since the box rejected all attempts to change this, they eventually had 
to rig a startup script to delete it and assert a working one.

Two full man-days down the tube (which, unsurprisingly, the customer 
refused to pay for).

Cheers; Leon