Re: Check Update, Update and Port Blocking

2014-03-11 Thread Bill Wood
On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 18:53 +, Joe wrote: . . . From your last post: Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/contrib/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 Could not connect passive socket. [IP: 64.50.233.100 21] Failed to fetch

Re: Check Update, Update and Port Blocking

2014-03-05 Thread Bill Wood
On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 07:09 -0500, PaulNM wrote: . . . On second though, I just re-read the OP's message. He's talking about the firewall on the Comcast modem/router. It's really rare for those types of devices to have outgoing filtering. However, according to:

Re: Check Update, Update and Port Blocking

2014-03-05 Thread Joe
On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 10:49:27 -0600 Bill Wood william.wo...@comcast.net wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 07:09 -0500, PaulNM wrote: . . . On second though, I just re-read the OP's message. He's talking about the firewall on the Comcast modem/router. It's really rare for those types of

Re: Check Update, Update and Port Blocking

2014-03-02 Thread Bill Wood
This is an update on my post on 02/20. I got the yellow triangle icon again so I went into admin for my Wireless Gateway and reset the security level to intermediate or typical. I then clicked on the icon and selected check updates. The usual dialog box appeared and it started checking for

Re: Check Update, Update and Port Blocking

2014-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 17 feb 14, 22:30:31, PaulNM wrote: I could be wrong, but my understanding is that apt uses standard http, so port 80 outgoing. Just because port 80 is used for listening for http requests doesn't meant the client is using the same outgoing port ;) Kind regards, Andrei --

Re: Check Update, Update and Port Blocking

2014-02-20 Thread PaulNM
On 02/20/2014 03:50 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 17 feb 14, 22:30:31, PaulNM wrote: I could be wrong, but my understanding is that apt uses standard http, so port 80 outgoing. Just because port 80 is used for listening for http requests doesn't meant the client is using the same

Re: Check Update, Update and Port Blocking

2014-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 20 feb 14, 07:09:27, PaulNM wrote: On 02/20/2014 03:50 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 17 feb 14, 22:30:31, PaulNM wrote: I could be wrong, but my understanding is that apt uses standard http, so port 80 outgoing. Just because port 80 is used for listening for http requests

Check Update, Update and Port Blocking

2014-02-17 Thread Bill Wood
Do the protocols used for automatic check for updates and for updates require specific ports to be available? I recently switched my cable modem to a Comcast Internet Gateway 1with the firewall set to high security and subsequently a couple of update check icons appeared indicating an error

Re: Check Update, Update and Port Blocking

2014-02-17 Thread PaulNM
On 02/17/2014 09:28 PM, Bill Wood wrote: Do the protocols used for automatic check for updates and for updates require specific ports to be available? I recently switched my cable modem to a Comcast Internet Gateway 1with the firewall set to high security and subsequently a couple of update