Win XP SP2 and gen_tcp:connect/3

[Matthias Lang]

Frej Drejhammar writes:

 > On my friend's Wintendo-box (XP SP2, English, corporate pro) running
 > R10B-2, gen_tcp:connect/3 fails with enotsock. It does so
 > irrespectively of port number and options to connect. It is not a
 > firewall issue, telnet connects just fine. Has anyone else seen this?

Other people have seen this:

  http://www.erlang.org/ml-archive/erlang-questions/200411/msg00120.html

As far as I know, nobody actually knows why it happens and nobody has a
fix.

Matthias