why do say 'assertion'?  are you calling me a liar?

i 'SAW' the CMS 'pinging' the outbound ports.

i was concerned with the need to have it installed as a Windows service. considering it is basically a database, and properly coded would not need to be installed as a service.

so i took a copy of DS4 to a friend of mine who has been programming for over 30 years, he installed it to a 'work rig' and ran a special debugging app he developed on the base code of the CMS. it was there on the screen as the app was running that the CMS WAS pinging outbound ports before it started to look for the internal ports it needs to run.

so, stick that in yer pipe and smoke it!   :))