At 07:52 PM 28/07/2004 +1000, I wrote:

>When I type
> netstat -an
>on my Win Classic server host (fluffy, n/w address 10.12.13.7), I can see
>IP address 0.0.0.0:3050 as LISTENING and foreign address 10.12.13.1:3050
>(my main Win32 development machine) with a socket connection ESTABLISHED to
>10.12.13.7:1805. There is no client issue there whatsoever: no clients
>are connected to the Classic server, nor asking to be.

Oh, bleh, not quite: a client is involved - though not involved with the
Classic service. Hence the ESTABLISHED socket is a red herring. I found I
had ib_sql on fluffy connected to the employee database on dev (10.12.13.1).

btw, all my Win32 servers are running on Win2K.

/hb