Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] ILS, big problem

[paul <xml mailandnews com>]

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 23:23, Damien Sandras wrote:
> Agreed, but most people are using ILS to call other people. When their
> port is unreachable, there are 80% chances that the rest of the firewall
> is not configured at all, and that they are just waiting for a miracle
> from god or thinking that GM is crap because it doesn't work.

Ok, why not have a "Communications test" button that is used during the
install wizard (and later if anyone wants to try), and that initiates
incoming and outgoing reachability checks on the standard ports? The ILS
server could be used for this, or some other daemon on the same machine.

Paul