[Info-vax] Another "automatic update"

[David Turner]

On 3/27/2019 12:08 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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.
> 
Well there's a surprise...  ;0)

> 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.
>