re RE: CVS Does Not Work From Behind ISA

  • From: "Craft, Steve" <SCraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'[ISAserver.org Discussion List]'" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:51:36 -0500

There are at least 6 protocols to access CVS (and a geometric number of
combinations).....  So if you are the Linux client behind an ISA box and
trying to reach the server over the internet, make sure ISA is set as your
default gateway and HTTP proxy.  You might also have to check out inetd.conf
(the exact .conf name escapes me right now, not enough coffee) for your IP
settings, the defaults might be misaligned with using HTTP 1.1 with/out a
proxy.

If the CVS (is it CVS or CVSNT?) server is running another protocol, then
make sure SOCKS4 proxying is set on on ISA (or install/activate SOCKS5 from
the ISA SDK) and try that one; many repositories on the internet use SSH2
(most secure and usually faster), so that might be an option.

What error message are you getting, exactly, on the client?  Are any alerts
or Event Log messages popping up on the ISA box?  "CVS doesn't work on Linux
from behind ISA" isn't all that descriptive.  Besides, ISA cost you more
than the RedHat install, so apply the bat according to potential cost-loss.
;)


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From: Ray Dzek [mailto:rdzek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Subject: [isalist] CVS Does Not Work From Behind ISA

So... I'm trying to build another Redhat box, and one of the install
packages suggests I use CVS to grab the updated source code and recompile.
No problem, right?  You just run a couple of command lines and your source
tree is updated and then you can recompile and install the new updated
binaries.  It sounds more complicated than it really is except for one
thing...

CVS doesn't work on Linux from behind ISA

There is nothing in the Knowledge Base and scant information after searching
Google.

Anybody have any ideas before I take a baseball bat to ISA?

Thanks all!

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