[Gambas-user] Ping > Benoit --> Apology

[Benoît Minisini]

> Benoit,
> 
> Some time ago (5 Dec or thereabouts) I reported that sockets in my
> Gambas-based proxy would mysteriously die and for no apparent reason,
> would continue to refuse to work barring a full linux reinstallation.
> There was much to-ing and fro-ing, resulting you being unable to
> pinpoint what the problem was and excusing yourself with something
> along the lines of "I didn't write the sockets component".
> 
> I was able to fix the problem by reinstalling Linux, however, and
> again, today, at just gone noon, and for no apparent reason whatsoever
> - no updates, no new app installs, nothing, my proxy died yet again;
> dead - as a Dodo. I debugged until the cows came home, and my proxy
> was not receiving any communication whatsoever from the client.
> 
> In despair I decided to install a different client, and lo and behold,
> the different client works. I can only conclude that the client, the
> Pan newsreader is the cause, and therefore it is a piece of crap.
> 
> I have deleted everything I could find to do with Pan, and completely
> removed it from my system but the problem persists, yet different
> clients continue to work.
> 
> I originally thought that the problem was gb2, and moved to gb3. When
> it happened again in gb3, I blamed gambas. I was wrong. You have my
> sincerest apologies. The clinet, the Pan newsreader, is the culprit
> here.
> 
> Regards,
> 

Good news then. But I don't understand how a news reader could break a proxy, 
but I am not a network specialist at all!

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini