CVS access failures

[David Shifflett]

Joel,
Good idea, I didn't think to try it using telnet.

I have confirmed that my IT dept. restricts CVS access.
I have gotten that restriction lifted for sourceware.org

Re-building now.

dave

On 8/29/14 11:08 AM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>
> On 8/29/2014 10:49 AM, David Shifflett wrote:
>> Chris,
>>
>> Thanks for your efforts.
>>
>> I still haven't been able to determine if my IT department is blocking CVS.
>>
>> Can you confirm that you can access the CVS server at sourceware.org?
>>
>> When I try 'cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs at sourceware.org:/cvs/src login'
>> I get a prompt to enter a password 'anoncvs',
>> but then I get a 'connection refused' error.
>>From oarcorp.com:
>
> -bash-4.2$ cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs at sourceware.org:/cvs/src login
> Logging in to :pserver:anoncvs at sourceware.org:2401/cvs/src
> CVS password:
> -bash-4.2$
>
> pserver is port 2401 so you can use telnet to test the connection:
>
> -bash-4.2$ telnet sourceware.org 2401
>
> Trying 209.132.180.131...
> Connected to sourceware.org.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> cvs [pserver aborted]: bad auth protocol start:
>
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
>
> --joel
>> dave
>>
>>
>> On 8/28/14 6:05 PM, Chris Johns wrote:
>>> On 29/08/2014 3:46 am, Federico Casares wrote:
>>>> Same error happens to me yesterday... IT block :P
>>>>
>>> Ouch.
>>>
>>>> regards
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Shifflett, David (CIV)
>>>> <shifflett at nps.edu <mailto:shifflett at nps.edu>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      I am trying to build on a Fedora 19 system.
>>>>      I am getting a 'connection refused' error when it tries to checkout
>>>>      newlib from sourceware.org <http://sourceware.org>
>>>>
>>>>      It is possible that CVS is being blocked by my IT department,
>>>>      I am looking into that.
>>>>
>>>>      Can someone confirm that the CVS server at sourceware.org
>>>>      <http://sourceware.org>
>>>>      is up and accessible?
>>>>
>>>>      If CVS access is being blocked,
>>>>      what alternatives do I have for getting things built?
>>>>
>>> I will figure out a suitable work around using the user macro feature.
>>>
>>> Joel, I think we need to consider a CVS snapshot approach. Newlib seems
>>> stable and doing this gets us back to http or ftp get.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
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