From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Sep 16 10:52: 3 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 371E837B428; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 10:52:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.8.210.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B3BC43E6A; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 10:51:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g8GHpfRG092110; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:51:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g8GHpeCu092109; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:51:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from alane) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:51:40 -0400 From: AlanE 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> Reply-To: alane@geeksrus.net References: <020916173235.AA20551.SM@nike.ins.cwru.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <020916173235.AA20551.SM@nike.ins.cwru.edu> 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 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