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From: Manuel Bouyer [mailto:bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr]
Subject: Re: Problems tracking -current


> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 10:36:11AM -0400, Rose, Brian wrote:
> 
> I tried the other USA mirror to no avail. Same problem.
>
>How did you try it ? just changing the cvs login isn't enouth,
>you also have specify it to every cvs command:
>cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@<cvs server name>:/cvsroot ...

I did the following at the BASH prompt and noticed that the servers do not
match (line 3 and line 5)!

  # CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@netbsd.stevens-tech.edu:/cvsroot ; export
CVSROOT
  # env | grep CVS
  CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@netbsd.stevens-tech.edu:/cvsroot
  # cvs update -d -P
  anoncvs.netbsd.org: Connection timed out
  cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if
any)

I also tried your example and got more or less the same error.

  # cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@netbsd.stevens-tech.edu:/cvsroot update -d -P
  cvs [update aborted]: connect to netbsd.stevens-tech.edu:2401 failed:
Connection timed out
 
  

> 
> I also tried this from multiple locations (work and home) and at various
> times during the day. All with the same problem.
> 
> I'd really like to avoid setting up a local CVS archive and I don't think
> that FTP'ing the sources is the most elegant solution.
> 
> Any ideas why I would get connection timeouts? Perhaps my company and ISP
> firewalls are blocking a port? Is there any way for me to diagnose a
> connection to the anoncvs servers?
>
>You can try this to see if the connection itself works:
>telnet <anoncvs name> 2401

  # telnet anoncvs.netbsd.org 2401
  Trying 204.152.184.161...
  telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out


Are these connection timeouts a symptom of a port being blocked? Or is there
something else going on?

Thank you for your help.



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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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