can't connect to cvsup.freebsd.org

[Josh Paetzel]

On Tuesday 05 December 2006 16:34, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> but I'm able to connect to cvsup5 and cvsup6.
>
> The main ftp site says: Cannot connect to data port: Connection
> refused
>
> This started around the time of the cut-overs.

*default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org


gimpy# csup /usr/local/etc/ports-supfile 
Connected to 198.104.69.57
Updating collection ports-all/cvs
 Edit ports/LEGAL
...

gimpy# dig a ftp.freebsd.org
...
ftp.freebsd.org.        180     IN      A       62.243.72.50
ftp.freebsd.org.        180     IN      A       204.152.184.73
....

gimpy# dig a cvsup.freebsd.org
.....
cvsup.freebsd.org.      3535    IN      CNAME   n.cwu.edu.
n.cwu.edu.              86335   IN      A       198.104.69.57
....

My point, in case you don't understand the ouput of all these commands 
is that cvsup.freebsd.org and ftp.freebsd.org are presumably two 
different machines, and it's entirely possible that ftp.freebsd.org 
isn't a cvsup server.

-- 
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel