or u can change ur cvsupfile's host to *default  host=localhost
of course :)

Ed.

Quoting Edmond Baroud ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 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
> > 
> > 
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