YOU wont work since I set-up SuSEfirewall2 ?
I set up SuSEfirewall2 on my linux box, which is used as a router / firewall for my small home network. It runs a DHCP server, SuSEfirewall2, Squid. All the browsers on the local network (including the linux box) use squid as their http proxy. I have not set up an ftp proxy (unless this is a default installation option and I have missed it). 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 ? Oh I have SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional. Would appreciate any advice that can be offered. Thanks .. Philip
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
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
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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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Armin Schoech
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