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I hate Windows Firewall

After a brief discussion with Tarken I settled on my new work development server being run on CentOS. For those of you that are unfamiliar, CentOS is the open source community’s free version of RedHat 5 Enterprise. I had initially downloaded the dvd iso image only to realize that my new server doesn’t have a dvd drive. Instead I opted to go the route of a network install. After about an hour of seeing this, I jumped on to irc to see if anyone could help me out with the problem. I was able to ping the booted server, but I wasn’t seeing any network traffic going through.

Finally I realized what was going on, you guessed it, Windows Firewall at some point had opted to turn itself back on. Whether this is an added “feature” for Vista I’m unawares at the present moment. Regardless, after turning it off, the install still started puking running through a web server. Partway through the install I would get a system exception error. Pointing my ftp server to the iso however fixed the problem.