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Date: | Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:57:51 +0100 |
From: | Nathaniel Street <n DOT r DOT street AT soton DOT ac DOT uk> |
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Subject: | Re: Setup.exe fails to access mirrors |
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Hi, I quit my firewall program after this failed the first time just to check that and it made no difference. Possibly related is that I haven't been able to ssh at all for the past few days and I can't figure out why, although that could be completely separate. Nat Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Nathaniel Street wrote: > > >>Hi >> >>I have no problems accessing the website. I just tried to install the >>program again after a break of a few hours but still no joy. >> >>Larry Hall wrote: >> >>>Nathaniel Street wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Hi >>>> >>>>When I run the setup.exe program, it fails when trying to access the >>>>list of mirrors. Does anyone know why this is? I select direct >>>>connect, which is how I connect to the internet. My connection >>>>functions fine for everything else. I've also tried IE5 but that >>>>doesn't work either. >>> >>>Works fine from here now. Do you have trouble accessing the cygwin >>>site? > > > Nathaniel, > > Are you running any personal/desktop firewall software? You might wish to > check the logs to see if it's blocking setup's attempts to access the > mirror list. Some (in particular, Symantec Desktop Firewall) provide a > log of all web accesses by all programs (including those from setup.exe); > see if setup actually accessed > <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/mirrors.lst>. > Igor -- Nathaniel Street University of Southampton Plants and Environment Lab School of Biological Sciences Basset Crescent East Southampton SO16 7PX tel: +44 (0) 2380 594387 fax: +44 (0) 2380 594269 n DOT r DOT street AT soton DOT ac DOT uk http://www.soton.ac.uk/~nrs298 ICQ: 203465793 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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