Re: [ECOS] access cvs server problem, please advise

[Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>]

Pete Barrie wrote:
> >I just tried it again from my home (not freeserve), and it works fine. Has
> >it ever worked before? Can you telnet to sources.redhat.com port 2401? Can
> >you ping sources.redhat.com?

Did you try this? Other ports you could try to see if there is a response:
21, 22, and 25.

> Can you telnet to sources.redhat.com port 80?
> >If so, and you type "HEAD / HTTP/1.0" followed by two returns, does it have
> >a Via line?
> 
> I don't get my input chars echoed. Here is
> the response:
> 
> HTTP/1.0 200 OK
> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 08:49:56 GMT
> Content-Type: text/html
> Server: Apache/1.3.23 (Unix)
> Last-Modified: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 15:10:24 GMT
> Via: 1.1 webcacheB03 (NetCache NetApp/5.2R1D7)
> 
> Connection to host lost.
> 
> peter@PC-PETER2 ~
> $

The fact it does have a Via line may indicate that they are firewalling
things, as they evidently don't have to worry about web ports.

Perhaps you should mail Freeserve's tech support.

Worst case, use Dave Airlie's FTP mirror. The link is at the bottom of
http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/anoncvs.html 

Jifl
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