Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <2591.202.123.20.91.1057050064.squirrel@webmail.etu.enseeiht.fr> In-Reply-To: References: <2845 DOT 202 DOT 123 DOT 20 DOT 91 DOT 1057045946 DOT squirrel AT webmail DOT etu DOT enseeiht DOT fr> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 11:01:04 +0200 (MEST) Subject: Re: network unreachable with cvs From: ind19 AT etu DOT enseeiht DOT fr To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal > On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 ind19 AT etu DOT enseeiht DOT fr wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I downloaded cygwin to use cvs. Unfortunatly, when I try to download >> something with cvs, I got an error message: Network is unreachable. I >> can't even connect to the repository. I'm sure of the command line I >> type because I copy/past it from the site (yazd/yasna.com), and I saw >> exactly the same on another site (sourceforge.net). The repository is >> supposed to be OK, it's the repository of sourceforge.net. >> What I did is simply download setup.exe and cygwin and launch >> setup.exe >> to install cygwin. >> What is exactly the problem? > > Network unreachable means that the network on which the host resides is > unreachable. If you try the following from a Cygwin bash/as prompt > > cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs AT sources DOT redhat DOT com:/cvs/src login > > what do you get (any password will work)? If you get no error's, that > means that > you have connected. If you get an error, I'd check for a firewall or some > such > not allowing outgoing to port 2401 . > > Elfyn > -- Still doesn't work. I asked and it seems that there's a firewall installed on the LAN. It's probably the problem, thank's. -- 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/