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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

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      University of Southampton
    Plants and Environment Lab
          School of Biological Sciences
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