Seriously... shouldn't dal4.4.13 for Windows be pulled at this point, or placed into an archival location clearly indicating it is old and unsupported? The version is buggy, the build is old and (IMO) antiquated. One can barely remember dal 4.4's idiosyncracies. My suggestion is that: if there is a windows version available at all outside of clearly marked 'archives': it should be the same as the current version for all OSes and not have a different codebase or contain special code like '#ifdefs' to specifically cater to Windows. I would see the optimal target as Windows Advanced server 2003 with the POSIX extensions, and possibly 2008 as a marginal (bleeding edge) target. As the Windows desktop OSes have crippled TCP/IP capabilities, sometimes crash or frequently experience instability, and are not at all suitable for running a sizable IRC server. In contract, Server 2003 properly configured and with the right hardware certainly is very stable and suitable for running large servers. It is routinely used by enterprises to run other types of servers with much higher I/O and traffic loads than IRC. The IRCD software just doesn't run on that platform, because IRC started as a UNIX application, and it is more convenient to just run UNIX servers than port. Porting requires time and energy resources that are difficult to justify, given the specialized nature of the application. There mere cost of the Windows server OS can buy some significant hardware to run a free UNIX clone on, for a large IRC network, multiply the cost by the number of servers, and see.... With the additional benefit that UNIX servers extract additional performance out of hardware; less GUI/API overhead, and on equivalent hardware, UNIX has better performance. Still, a proper Windows port might make more good servers available than would be available otherwise (very small possibility). -- -J On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Syed Abdur Rahman Bukhari <abcent@gmail.com> wrote:

I have problem running my IRCd for Windows, when I try to connect to 127.0.0.1 on port 7000 (/server 127.0.0.1:7000), the daemon says * Connecting to 127.0.0.1 (7000)