I've had the same situation here and I couldn't convince our "security" team to open 5999 for my cvsups. I do have ssh (22tcp) open, and a box at home, on which I setup xinetd to accept connections on localhost:5999 => cvsup7.freebsd.org:5999 added cvsup7.freebsd.org as alias to my localhost in /etc/hosts and tunneled 5999 through ssh between my office_box and my home_box ;)
hope this helps, Ed. Quoting Igor Pokrovsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello, > > I'm in despair. I cannot get past firewall to update > my sources and ports of FreeBSD. At least it seems > to me that this is a firewall problem. > I tried to use all options with -P. Nothing happends, > every time cvsup writes after quite a long pause, that > connection to server refused. It is interesting, that > about a week ago I used the same cvsup on the same system > (FreeBSD-stable) > successfully. Some day something happend (perhaps somebody > reconfigured firewall) and nothing is working now. > > Here is my cvsup file: > *default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org > *default prefix=/usr/home/src/CVS/FreeBSD > *default base=/usr/home/src/CVS > *default release=cvs > *default delete compress use-rel-suffix > > ## Main Source Tree > src-all > > # Other stuff > ports-all > www > doc-all > > I tried to use different mirrors, nothing helps. > > Version of cvsup is SNAP_16_1f. > > -- > Igor > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Edmond Baroud UNIX Systems Admin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint 140F 5FD5 3FDD 45D9 226D 9602 8C3D EAFB 4E19 BEF9 "UNIX is very user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
