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Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 19:52:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Joe Brown <joebrown AT rclooke DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Hopefully unsual issue
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On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Joe Brown wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Don't know how long this has been an issue, it's been over a month.
>
> I cannot reach port:80 cygwin.com.  I can ping cygwin.com and I can ftp
> to it, but I cannot access the web.  I have no filters in place to stop
> me from reaching there.  Currently hoping for a responce from my ISP in
> regard to the issue.  I also pestered support AT redhat DOT com...

Can you telnet to port 80?  Do you have an /etc/hosts with cygwin.com's
address (which may be stale)?

> I'm guessing I've downloaded cygwin too may times in the past and my
> priveleges have been revoked :o  Who did I annoy???  How???

AFAIK, this doesn't happen, unless you mean someone at your local site.

> As may be aware, this means I cannot install cygwin.  After installing
> the latest Clamwin, I've run into versions issues...  Now I'm jonesing
> for a working cygwin.
>
> I trying to skirt this issue of no cygwin.com:80 by downloading a
> mirrored copy of cygwin packages.

That's what you're supposed to do.

> This however is met with the setup GPFing on various packages:
>
> _obsolete/fileutils
> mhash
> _obsolete/sh-utils
> _obsolete/textutils
>
> Unchecking these packages seems to help, but there's an awful lot of
> stuff in misc packages and takes a while to install up to the next
> package that gpf's. :/

Are you using an ancient version of setup?  What does the first page
report?

> Any thoughts of wisdom for me?

Can you access cygwin.com via one of its aliases,
<http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/> or <http://sourceware.org/cygwin/>?
Some mirrors also have copies of setup.exe -- see if getting a more recent
version fixes your problem.  The one on cygwin.com is from January 2005,
version 2.457.2.2.  Try also getting a snapshot
(<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-05/msg00250.html>).
HTH,
	Igor
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