[Savannah-help-public] Re: [gnu.org #552398] cvs up fails on savannah

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:07:26AM -0500, Ward Vandewege via RT wrote:
> > [rms - Sat Feb 13 16:36:50 2010]:
> > 
> > Here is what I get:
> > 
> > address@hidden:~/website/philosophy$ cvs up
> > ssh: connect to host cvs.savannah.gnu.org port 22: Connection timed
> > out
> > cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages
> > if any)
> 
> It works fine for me, so this problem is likely specific to your setup
> or network connection.
> 
> Can you confirm that cvs.savannah.gnu.org resolves to the correct IP
> address with this command:
> 
>   host cvs.savannah.gnu.org
> 
> If you get an error about the command not being found, you can install
> it with
> 
>   apt-get install bind9-host
> 
> The host command should report the IP address
> 
>   140.186.70.72
> 
> If it does not, please have a look in 
> 
>   /etc/hosts
> 
> and remove any lines that have cvs.savannah.gnu.org in them. You can
> verify if that helps by re-issuing
> 
>   host cvs.savannah.gnu.org
> 
> If it resolves to 
> 
>   140.186.70.72
> 
> you could test connectivity to ssh with 
> 
>   telnet cvs.savannah.gnu.org 22
> 
> You should see
> 
>   $ telnet cvs.savannah.gnu.org 22
>   Trying 140.186.70.72...
>   Connected to cvs.savannah.gnu.org.
>   Escape character is '^]'.
>   SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5
> 
> If you do, the cvs command should then work correctly. If you do not,
> there is firewalling in the way either on your machine or somewhere
> between your machine and Savannah.
> 
> Sylvain, any other ideas?

Just to make sure: the headers say this mail was sent to me only - did
Richard get your answer?

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Sylvain