[Info-vax] Another "automatic update"

[Dave Froble]

Got a bit busy today.  Quite interesting, and disgusting.

A networking task that has been working very well for months, if not 
years, got an error and aborted.  Actually, did it twice.

This happened right after an automatic update of WEENDOZE server 2012, 
and of course, it's not a consistent error, just intermittent.  Oh, joy!

Turns out it's an error from WEENDOZE TCP/IP, where it attempts to 
connect to another connection request while the listener is currently 
attached to another connection.

Ok, nothing in the application program can affect this.  Best I can 
determine is it's probably something introduced by the automatic update.

So, now, where were all those arguments for just rolling in updates 
without some serious testing?  So we have this brave new world of 
constant automatic updates.  Be afraid.  Be very afraid.

To be fair, since it's intermittent, testing just might not have caught it.

Moved the task over to a WEENDOZE 7 system and it's been working without 
any problems.  But, that's putting off the issue, not solving it.

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