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Date:      Sat, 14 Sep 2002 15:55:26 -0400
From:      Alan E <alane@geeksrus.net>
To:        Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
Cc:        sroberts@dsl.pipex.com, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Port Mgr <portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: portupgrade of bash-2.05b_1 failing now for second day
Message-ID:  <20020914195526.GB75346@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020914172450.GA379@straylight.oblivion.bg>
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>

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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.
>> 
>> <hangs here for approx 2 minutes>
>
>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)
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