On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 08:41:57PM +0100, Markus W Kilbinger wrote:
> >>>>> "Steven" == Steven M Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> writes:
> 
>     Steve> I'm unable to update pkgsrc from anoncvs via cvs over ssh.
>     Steve> When I try, I get connection timeout errors.
> 
>     >> This might be
>     >> 
>     >> http://news.gw.com/netbsd.source.changes/169163
> 
>     Steven> [...] I still don't understand why I was seeing
>     Steven> "connection refused" on the pserver port, but seeing
>     Steven> nothing on port 22.
> 
> cvs over ssh implies network tunneling via lo0 which was broken (and
> has a workaround for now; see the url).

That is not so.

I suspect what Steve was seeing was an artifact of the way one of the
packet filters in front of the anoncvs service works.

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