From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Sep 14 12:57:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79FD237B400; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 12:57:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.8.210.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F90543E4A; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 12:56:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (alane@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g8EJtQkZ076047; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 15:55:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g8EJtQUC076046; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 15:55:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from alane) Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 15:55:26 -0400 From: Alan E To: Peter Pentchev Cc: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com, Matthew Seaman , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Port Mgr Subject: Re: portupgrade of bash-2.05b_1 failing now for second day Message-ID: <20020914195526.GB75346@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Reply-To: alane@geeksrus.net References: <1032001380.353.17.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> <20020914113308.GE46500@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <1032019456.353.34.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> <20020914164542.GA48934@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <1032023405.353.47.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> <20020914172450.GA379@straylight.oblivion.bg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020914172450.GA379@straylight.oblivion.bg> X-message-flag: Magic 8-Ball says "Outlook not so good." I'll ask it about Exchange next. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 08:24:50PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: >On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 06:10:04PM +0100, Stacey Roberts wrote: >> Hi Matthew, >> Thanks for the reply. Well., here's what I get from a manual ftp >> attempt: >> # ftp ftp.cwru.edu >> Connected to dilbert.INS.cwru.edu. >> >> > >There is another thread in -ports right now about the same problem; it >seems that the CWRU FTP server attempts to establish an ident connection >so it can keep track of who is connecting to it. Is there a chance that >either on your machine or on some sort of a gateway between you and CWRU >there is a firewall that silently drops attempts at incoming TCP >connections to port 113, without sending a RST in reply? If so, and if >you have any sort of control over that, could you try disabling it for a >while? If the firewall is an ipfw firewall on a FreeBSD machine, try >changing the 'deny' rule to a 'reset' one; if it is IPFilter, try adding >a 'return-rst' keyword to the 'block' rule. > So that means this is a FreeBSD problem in general, because the default firewall state uses deny. So you have to add a custom rule just to fetch this port. That blows all kinds of dead bears. -- Alan Eldridge Unix/C(++) IT Pro, 20 yrs, seeking new employment. (http://wwweasel.geeksrus.net/~alane/resume.txt) KDE, KDE-FreeBSD Teams (http://www.kde.org, http://freebsd.kde.org/) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message