Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:51:40 -0400 From: AlanE <alane@geeksrus.net> To: chet@po.cwru.edu Cc: alane@geeksrus.net, kris@obsecurity.org, roam@ringlet.net, sroberts@dsl.pipex.com, m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portupgrade of bash-2.05b_1 failing now for second day Message-ID: <20020916175140.GA91276@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> In-Reply-To: <020916173235.AA20551.SM@nike.ins.cwru.edu> References: <020916173235.AA20551.SM@nike.ins.cwru.edu>
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On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 01:32:35PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 10:18:59AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: >> >> Just add a more appropriate MASTER_SITE..we can't do much about broken >> >> FTP sites. >> > >> >Excuse me? How exactly does ftp.cwru.edu's policy of asking for ident >> >information make it a `broken FTP site'? The ftp server is waiting for >> >a response to its ident request, and fetch times out. >> > >> >Chet >> >> And if I don't run an ident server, or I run one that returns ERROR >> no matter what, or I don't have that port open at all? Why should I have >> to change my firewall and my system daemons in order to fetch some >> source code? > >None of these cases are a problem. They all return a response, even >if it's just `connection reset'. It's the dropping the packets on the >floor and leaving the request just hanging in the ether that causes >the problem. If you install any of the default IP firewall code on FBSD, it drops packets on the floor by default. It won't send RST packets unless a special rule is added. A lot of people don't really understand enough to do that. >In any event, I had ftp.cwru.edu's anonymous ftp configuration changed >so it won't try ident. I'm not really happy about doing it. > Thanks. Although, as I suggested, just providing a mirror that carried the patches would've worked also. Why doesn't GNU keep them in their ftp server's bash dir? -- 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
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