From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 23 0:33:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from bamboo.verinet.com (bamboo.verinet.com [204.144.246.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE0C6120EC for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 00:33:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from allenc@verinet.com) Received: from struct. (allenc.verinet.com [199.45.180.181]) by bamboo.verinet.com (8.8.8/8.7.1) with ESMTP id BAA10461; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 01:33:08 -0700 Received: from verinet.com (struct. [192.168.1.3]) by struct. (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA01552; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 01:33:04 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from allenc@verinet.com) Message-ID: <36D267BF.117A6839@verinet.com> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 01:33:03 -0700 From: Allen Campbell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Privileged port problems References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Allen Campbell wrote: > > > My ISP appears to be filtering outgoing packets for > > privileged source port numbers. This is preventing > > me from accessing anoncvs.freebsd.org; the CVS client > > attempts to authenticate to anoncvs.freebsd.org using > > a privileged source port (via rsh) and the operation > > times out. I also observe that rpcinfo as a > > non-privileged user works correctly, but fails as > > root because it then attempts to use a privileged > > source port. > > > > Have you tried telling cvs to use ssh? > > export CVS_RSH=ssh > > this resolved my issues, i'm too lazy to look if ssh requires the same > ports. This did the trick. I configured ssh to not use privileged ports with UsePrivilegedPort = no anoncvs.freebsd.org is happy with this. Thank you. > > I'm fairly certain I will have no luck convincing my > > ISP to allow these connections. No doubt they will claim > > it prevents their customers from using their system to > > attack other hosts. > > you really should complain to the ISP, this is beyond lame. Some random Joe user griping about some weird CVS thing. Believe me, if anti-social wasn't my middle name I might have already found the motivation to take on the absolute cluelessness I will confront. However, for the sake of random Joe users everywhere I'll take a stab at it (figuratively, at first. :) > alternativly you can use cvsup to grab the entire CVS repo, or just > the distros you want, keeping a local copy is much easier on yourself. I haven't been tracking stable or current; usually I just want to patch some man page for spelling or missing options and submit a PR. Sometimes I need to butcher a program (hexdump being the most recent example) for special behavior. Anonymous CVS is perfect here. > -Alfred -- Allen Campbell | Lurking at the bottom of the allenc@verinet.com | gravity well, getting old. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message