Re: [ECOS] access cvs server problem, please advise

[Pete Barrie <peter at cis dot strath dot ac dot uk>]

At 01:58 06/02/2002 +0000, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>Pete Barrie wrote:
> >
> > At 14:20 05/02/2002 +0000, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> > >David Oberbeck wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Subject: Re: [ECOS] access cvs server problem, please advise
> > > > Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 16:39:40 -0700
> > > > From: David Oberbeck <dgo@microsynetics.com>
> > > > To: HLin@hauppauge.com
> > > >
> > > > Harry,
> > > >
> > > >    Are you behind a firewall? If you, you need port 2401 opened for
> > > > outbound traffic, and a return path for the newly-opened connection.
> > >
> > >Or maybe it was a temporary glitch on sources.redhat.com. It works right
> > >now for what it is worth.
> >
> > I'm getting the same response as below. Running on Win2000.
>
>I just tried it again from my home (not freeserve), and it works fine. Has
>it ever worked before? Can you telnet to sources.redhat.com port 2401? Can
>you ping sources.redhat.com? Can you telnet to sources.redhat.com port 80?
>If so, and you type "HEAD / HTTP/1.0" followed by two returns, does it have
>a Via line?

I don't get my input chars echoed. Here is
the response:


HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 08:49:56 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Server: Apache/1.3.23 (Unix)
Last-Modified: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 15:10:24 GMT
Via: 1.1 webcacheB03 (NetCache NetApp/5.2R1D7)



Connection to host lost.

peter@PC-PETER2 ~
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>I wouldn't have expected freeserve to block port 2401 _outbound_. It
>doesn't make much sense, but it does look a lot like firewalling...
>
>Jifl
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