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Date:      Sat, 21 Feb 2004 18:44:12 +0800
From:      James Gallagher <james.freebsd@gallagher.cx>
To:        Tiller Beauchamp <tiller@cs.ucsd.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvsup gets connection refused
Message-ID:  <E2B7F19F-645A-11D8-AA6B-000A956A45FA@gallagher.cx>
In-Reply-To: <1077212132.48317.10.camel@mizu.ucsd.edu>
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On 20 Feb 2004, at 01:35, Tiller Beauchamp wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 06:25, James Gallagher wrote:
>> Hi Carl,
>>
>> Just out of curiosity, do you have a firewall between your BSD box and
>> the cvs server you're trying to connect to? Alternatively, have you
>> tested another cvs server? The reason I ask about the firewall is that
>> I had a similar problem recently which turned out to be a particular
>> port being blocked. I can look back and see what it was if you think
>> it's relevant. It's the only thing I can think of right now.
>
> I've been suffering from this same connection refused problem.  I'd be
> interested to know which ports those were.

Tiller,

Really sorry for the delay responding. I didn't have a note of those 
changes, so had to check it out:
cvsup connects from a high port to 5999 on the CVS server
cvsup reads from 5999 on the CVS server.

These settings allow me to cvsup to one of the Aussie mirrors.

HTH

James



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