On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:07:26AM -0500, Ward Vandewege via RT wrote: > > [rms - Sat Feb 13 16:36:50 2010]: > > > > Here is what I get: > > > > r...@theobromine2:~/website/philosophy$ cvs up > > ssh: connect to host cvs.savannah.gnu.org port 22: Connection timed > > out > > cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages > > if any) > > It works fine for me, so this problem is likely specific to your setup > or network connection. > > Can you confirm that cvs.savannah.gnu.org resolves to the correct IP > address with this command: > > host cvs.savannah.gnu.org > > If you get an error about the command not being found, you can install > it with > > apt-get install bind9-host > > The host command should report the IP address > > 140.186.70.72 > > If it does not, please have a look in > > /etc/hosts > > and remove any lines that have cvs.savannah.gnu.org in them. You can > verify if that helps by re-issuing > > host cvs.savannah.gnu.org > > If it resolves to > > 140.186.70.72 > > you could test connectivity to ssh with > > telnet cvs.savannah.gnu.org 22 > > You should see > > $ telnet cvs.savannah.gnu.org 22 > Trying 140.186.70.72... > Connected to cvs.savannah.gnu.org. > Escape character is '^]'. > SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5 > > If you do, the cvs command should then work correctly. If you do not, > there is firewalling in the way either on your machine or somewhere > between your machine and Savannah. > > Sylvain, any other ideas?
Just to make sure: the headers say this mail was sent to me only - did Richard get your answer? -- Sylvain
