Hopefully unsual issue

[Joe Brown]

Hi Igor,

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

>>I cannot reach port:80 cygwin.com.  I can ping cygwin.com and I can ftp
>>to it, but I cannot access the web.  I have no filters in place to stop
>>me from reaching there.  Currently hoping for a responce from my ISP in
>>regard to the issue.  I also pestered support@redhat.com...
>>    
>>
>
>Can you telnet to port 80?  Do you have an /etc/hosts with cygwin.com's
>address (which may be stale)?
>  
>
Thanks for the ideas...
None of the computers at my site can connect to cygwin.com:80, I did try 
to telnet...  "Connection refused" is the closest to an explaination 
I've received.

I did check windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, no cygwin entry.... 
cygwin works for other ports, only 80 is refused.  So I checked my 
Sonicwall/firewall, but there's no filters that I could see that have 
anything to do with cygwin or port 80, let alone both.

>>I trying to skirt this issue of no cygwin.com:80 by downloading a
>>mirrored copy of cygwin packages.
>>    
>>
>
>That's what you're supposed to do.
>  
>
I used ncftpget -R 
ftp://mirror.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/release/*  Upon 
reflection wget probably would have made this much simpler... because 
ncftpget only works 2 directory levels deep in recursion.  Then I used 
setup.exe to install from a local directory.  But there appears to be no 
specific source listing of packages to install.  It listed everything 
and the cited packages caused setup.exe to GPF.

>>This however is met with the setup GPFing on various packages:
>>
>>_obsolete/fileutils
>>mhash
>>_obsolete/sh-utils
>>_obsolete/textutils
>>
>>Unchecking these packages seems to help, but there's an awful lot of
>>stuff in misc packages and takes a while to install up to the next
>>package that gpf's. :/
>>    
>>
>Are you using an ancient version of setup?  What does the first page
>report?
>  
>
2.457.2.2 is the version of setup I had those issues with.
I tried an older one (February 2004 version) too, but think it had the 
same issues.

>>Any thoughts of wisdom for me?
>>    
>>
>
>Can you access cygwin.com via one of its aliases,
><http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/> or <http://sourceware.org/cygwin/>?
>Some mirrors also have copies of setup.exe -- see if getting a more recent
>version fixes your problem.  The one on cygwin.com is from January 2005,
>version 2.457.2.2.  Try also getting a snapshot
>(<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-05/msg00250.html>).
>HTH,
>	Igor
>  
>
I copied a psudo snapshot from mirrors.kernel.org as mentioned, using 
ncftpget.  Althought this does not resolve my issue of connecting to 
cygwin.com:80 I was able to install from the local directory, everything 
except those 4 packages.

Running setup again, it gpfs immediatly on the on the same packages.  My 
guess is that those packages aren't supposed to be installed in a clean 
setup, though mhash seems like it doesn't belong in that mix.

-Joe

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