On 12 May 2001, Bgs himself <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I don't know where you got 514 from. rsync uses port 873.
>
> I simply dumped network traffic and saw that rsync kept connecting to
> sourceforege's 514 port. I opened the port and they communicated for a
> while. Then I got an rsync timeout...
In that case, you were probably using the default option of
rsync-over-rsh, which is (for very good security reasons) not allowed
by sourceforge.
> I guess I could sum up the prob as: Is it possible to anonymous ssh rsync
> from a site that allows anonymous rsync but seems to ask for password for
> any ssh connection ?
Yes, simply open port 873 outgoing on your firewall and do
rsync download.sourceforge.net::
You can't use ssh to download from a site where you don't have an ssh
account, unless they've created an anonymous ssh account. (OpenBSD do
this, I think, to make sure that the transfers are not interefered
with in flight.)
Note the double colon. Happy downloading.
> Bgs
"Big green snake?"
--
Martin
