Re: Info-cvs digest, Vol 1 #603 - 14 msgs

[Ron Smith]

And the pieces all finally come together.....

That last bit helped us figure out the problem.  You are correct: 
they are on different network segments so, the question was: why was 
it translating the address that I entered (which is on my network 
segment) to an address on the other network segment.

The answer was that I had two entries for my DNS servers -- one from 
each network segment.  Normally, that is not a problem but the CVS 
server just happens to be in both with the different addresses mapped 
to each other (I'm not real clear on how that all works but it 
doesn't matter).

The solution was to remove the DNS entries and just accept whatever 
the DHCP server was giving me (I could have figured out which one had 
the correct entries for my network segment but that would have been 
more difficult).

Then, I had one other minor problem -- it said it could not create 
the .cvspass in my home directory.  I created an empty .cvspass there 
and now everything works perfectly!

Thanks for all the help!

> Ron Smith writes:
> >  Ok, I just tried that and I can telnet to that port.  Here's what I got:
> >
> >  [localhost:~/Projects] ron% telnet 1.2.1.41 2401
> >  Trying 1.2.1.41...
> >  Connected to 1.2.1.41.
> >  Escape character is '^]'.
> >  ? <--- I typed this and pressed enter
> >  cvs [pserver aborted]: bad auth protocol start: ?
> >
> >  Connection closed by foreign host.
> >
> >  I think this means it is working ok.  Besides, it is working on 
> > other machines.
>
> However, the original problem report was:
>
> >  >>  >>  cvs [login aborted]: connect to ga01db03(1.2.2.21):2401 failed:
> >  >>  >>  Operation timed out
>
> 1.2.1.41 and 1.2.2.21 may be the same machine, but they're likely on
> different networks and may be subject to different firewall rules.  If
> telnet to 1.2.2.21 2401 works, then I'll bet it was a transient network
> problem and that CVS will now work, too.
>
> -Larry Jones
>
> I'm not a vegetarian!  I'm a dessertarian. -- Calvin


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