Can anyone from SuSE tell me what is going on?
Hello, I wrote a few days ago to see if anyone can tell me how to fix my issue with SuSE. I cannot get updates from YOU while I am masqueraded in my network. I looked on SuSE's web site and saw that they had updated but my client machines still fail to get the updates! Why! I cannot plug in the machines individually and pulling the updates to the server and then to the network is inpractical! I did not have this issue with previous versions. But now I have it. I am (for now) using SuSE personal firewall to help protect the network. It doesn't matter if I have it on or off, I still cannot update the clients behind the masqueraded box! All machines are SuSE 8.1. The error occurs after I set what server that I want to get the updates from and when I click next, it tells me that it could not initialize the update and if it continues to try another server! I tried every d*** one of them! What can fix this? Also the rpm version of the applications manual is missing. Why? Marshall Heartley "Nothing is impossible, we just do not have all the anwsers to make the impossible possible."
Are you sure the ftp_nat_masq module is loaded in the masking firewall box? I bet the FTP's time out -- it is because of the connection failing. The COMMAND link is fine, but the data port can not be opened without all the correct modules loaded into the masq-ing firewall... ciao Kat On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 10:49, Marshall Heartley wrote:
Hello,
I wrote a few days ago to see if anyone can tell me how to fix my issue with SuSE. I cannot get updates from YOU while I am masqueraded in my network. I looked on SuSE's web site and saw that they had updated but my client machines still fail to get the updates! Why! I cannot plug in the machines individually and pulling the updates to the server and then to the network is inpractical! I did not have this issue with previous versions. But now I have it. I am (for now) using SuSE personal firewall to help protect the network. It doesn't matter if I have it on or off, I still cannot update the clients behind the masqueraded box! All machines are SuSE 8.1. The error occurs after I set what server that I want to get the updates from and when I click next, it tells me that it could not initialize the update and if it continues to try another server! I tried every d*** one of them! What can fix this? Also the rpm version of the applications manual is missing. Why?
Marshall Heartley
"Nothing is impossible, we just do not have all the anwsers to make the impossible possible."
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heartley@earthlink.net [ Sat, 12 Oct 2002 07:49:57 -0700]:
I cannot get updates from YOU while I am masqueraded in my network.
If you're trying to fetch via FTP, I guess you haven't yet installed the YOU update. If that's so, YOU is unable to do passive ftp as it doesn't pass the necessary parameter to wget. For the time being, just edit /etc/wgetrc. Search for the line #passive_ftp = off , remove the hash sign in front and change the 'off' to 'on'. As you're behind a firewall that blocks active FTP this would be advisable even if YOU would work correctly. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas work: pthomas@suse.de Development SuSE Linux AG private: pth@t-link.de
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