Re: Timing out during sysupdate

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Justin Howell wrote:

> It freezes on a different package each time, but eventually the package
> name disappears and this message appears:
> 
> Timeout at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/FTP.pm line 471
> 
> Anybody seen anything like this?  Do I have something improperly
> configured?  I tried setting passive FTP to "no", but that didn't seem
> to make a difference.  Could it be a firewall issue?  I'm not 100% sure
> what ports are block, but normal FTP works fine.

... autorpm also had this issue when we moved to iptables -- 
(it also uses the cpan module listed)

passive mode on solved it generally, but when there was NOT an 
intervening iptables NATtting going on, it broke it.   ;(

I just dinked, site by site, with my settings to solve the 
issue.  NOT a good solution -- just a practical one.

-- Russ Herrold