[Zope-dev] Can't fetch externals???

Paul Winkler pw_lists at slinkp.com
Fri Sep 30 16:42:54 EDT 2005


Aha! Thanks very much Fred, this arrived just after I sent a message
asking for confirmation of exactly that :-)

Looks like it's the standard 3690 port, I'll go talk to our poor
beleaguered admins...  thanks again!

-PW

Fred Drake said:
> On 9/30/05, Paul Winkler <pw_lists at slinkp.com> wrote:
>> One thing Tino suggested: it might be a firewall issue.
>> Does svn's externals-fetching look somehow different to a firewall
>> than does a regular (non-external) checkout?
>> When I tried checking out on my laptop, I noticed that ZoneAlarm asked
>> 'me if I wanted to allow svn.exe to use the internet at exactly the
>> moment that it was time to fetch the externals.  Weird - doesn't it
>> still use ssh?  What's different?
>
> Tino's on the right track; the externals do NOT use ssh; they use an
> unauthenticated connection and cannot be used to commit changes (by
> intent).
>
> So it could be a firewall issue; some different port needs to be
> opened.  The Subversion documentation should tell you what's needed.
>
>
>   -Fred
>
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