Re: Firewall Locks Windows Version

From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
To: Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de>
Cc: Stephen McConnell <mcconnell_stephen(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Firewall Locks Windows Version
Date: 2005-08-25 14:09:09
Message-ID: 430DD105.7070507@pse-consulting.de
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Tino Wildenhain wrote:

> improvement.
>
> I dont think adding a regex routine just to find out a shortcut
> for translating a literal string which means an IP-address
> is worth the effort - think that "professional programmers"
> take efficiency in account. And adding a bunch of code just
> for very very rare use cases for a function which should be
> provided by the OS is rarely effective.

This is the very single report of DNS lookup problems. Until we added
extended information to FAQs, we had complaints about interrupted
connections, caused by misconfigured firewalls. We won't change pgAdmins
behaviour to catch bad installations, but continue to concentrate on
_valuable_ coding. There's enough sensible stuff on the wish list.

Regards,
Andreas

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