Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Jerry A! <jerry@thehutt.org>]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 04:48:35PM -0500, Greer, Darren (MED) wrote:
: Yah, this rsync issue seems like it may be a pain.  With Debian I could
: easily apt-get update using the proxy.  However, when I set the proxy in
: make.globals or using the env rsync_proxy it still does not work.  If I
: strace it I get:
: 
: Here is proof that I can get out via port 80 from the shell
: #######################
: flash /root > export http_proxy=http://3.231.200.25:80
: flash /root > export rsync_proxy=3.231.200.25:80
: flash /root > export http_proxy=3.231.200.25
: flash /root > wget http://gentoo.org

I think I see some of your problems.  First, RSYNC_PROXY (and since it's
in the environment it's all caps) only specifies a rsync server to proxy
with.  However, rsync_proxy connections only work on port 873.

Otherwise, rsync will use rsh/ssh to grab it's data.  Now both of those
work on port 22.

It just dawned on me that in a previous e-mail you mentioned that you
only had ports 21 and 80 open.  Well, there's your problem--you only
have ftp and http open on your firewall.  You'll need to either open up
port 22 (ssh/rsh) or put in some stateful rules to keep an outgoing
connection open.

Hope this helps...

        --Jerry

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