[oe] Firewall blocking access to monotone server?

[Florian Boor]

Hi,

Tiller, Jason schrieb:
> I'm running on a 400MHz P-III with 256MB of memory running RHEL 4.  The OS is
> mandated by my IT guys.  I got everything down, finally got everything built
> (well, so far), including git, svn, mtn, boost, (1.33.1), bb, and a whole
> host of other packages.  My poor little box has been compiling its little
> brains out.  I think I have everything in place.

Oh dear... RHEL4 is quite common, but compiling on this hardware will be a major
pain. I could donate an faster PC to your company if you like ;-)

> If I were to go to my IT guys and ask them (nicely) to help me out, what do I
> need to tell them in terms of the port/protocol issues?  I'll need to
> convince them that this is a safe proposition, but I'm sure exactly what I'm
> asking for.

Well since that's an outgoing connection on a single, defined port there is
really not much risk in opening it. If they are really crazy and do not want to
allow external connections they could provide a SOCKS proxy you could use with
tsocks.

Greetings

Florian


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