Armin,
many thanks.
Ping ftp.suse.com works fine.
No interesting dropped packet messages to be found.
passive_ftp = on already
and today it works !
Sorry to have peetered everyone. But I learn more with every message read .
Many thanks.
Philip
----- Original Message -----
From: "Armin Schoech"
Hi !
Are there any settings I need to watch out for regarding FTP in order to carry out an on-line update using YOU.
It may be a co-incidence but since setting up the firewall YOU keeps timing out. It spends some time getting a list of mirror FTP sites to use (10 minutes) but then times out after 20-30 minutes trying to fetch the list of patches available. How can I figure out what is going wrong ?
--> There were some versions of YOU that tried to ping the FTP-server. If this is disallowed by the firewall, you will have problems. Try "ping ftp.suse.com" from the command line.
Have a look at /var/log/messages to find out which packets are dropped by the firewall. This should give you a hint.
Another thing is passive/active FTP. Try to set "passive_ftp=on" in /etc/wgetrc.
HTH, Armin
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