cvsup problem

[Jan-Espen Pettersen]

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 20:08, Toni Schmidbauer wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:40:56PM +0000, balaji at alumni.uottawa.ca wrote:
> >  # cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile
> >  Parsing supfile "/root/ports-supfile"
> >  Connecting to cvsup1.FreeBSD.org
> >  Cannot connect to cvsup1.FreeBSD.org: Connection refused
> >  Will retry at 17:47:15
> 
> seems like cvsup1.freebsd.org is down, have you tried any other
> cvsup server?
> 
> >  bash-2.05b$ netstat -na |grep 5999
> >  tcp4       0      0  *.5999                 *.*                    LISTEN
> 
> are you running a cvsup server? if you just would like to update
> your ports-collections this is _not_ necessary.
> 
> > Two bits of information:
> > 
> > * I am accessing via a firewall. I able to browse the web, send/get mail etc. 
> > * I can ping to hosts in the internal network, but not external hosts.

You'll probably need -P m to cvsup via a firewall or NAT gateway.

example:
# cvsup -g -L 2 -P m /root/ports-supfile