Source Update problems

[Tim Holmes]

| Can you
| 
| ping cvsup8.FreeBSD.org
| 
| Can you
| 
| telnet cvsup8.FreeBSD.org cvsup

O.K.  This is weird.  I can ping and telnet to the host from a machine on 
my network.  This machine uses the FreeBSD server as it's gateway, and there's
no problem:

$ telnet cvsup8.FreeBSD.org cvsup
Trying 128.205.32.21...
Connected to oliver.cse.Buffalo.EDU (128.205.32.21).
Escape character is '^]'.
OK 17 0 SNAP_16_1h CVSup server ready

However, from the actually server, I can ping it, but not telnet to it:

$ fping -c 2 cvsup8.FreeBSD.org
cvsup8.FreeBSD.org : [0], 84 bytes, 29.3 ms (29.3 avg, 0% loss)
cvsup8.FreeBSD.org : [1], 84 bytes, 31.3 ms (30.3 avg, 0% loss)

$ telnet cvsup8.FreeBSD.org cvsup
Trying 68.87.64.132...
telnet: connect to address 68.87.64.132: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

Seems to me I should be able to reach it from the actual gateway machine if
I can reach it from another machine on the network.  Any ideas?

| (I can). Maybe when you tried the server was too busy or down for a few
| minutes. Here's a trick I learned from
| 
| <http://portmanager.sunsite.dk/ports-foundation-building.html>
| 
| Install the fastest_cvsup port, then in /etc/make.conf, set
| 
| SUPHOST=`/usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup -Qc uk`
| 
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I'll look into this once I can actually install software.  It won't
let me install anything either.

tdh

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