226412 - Cannot download source via CVS

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Nikola Pentchev]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: 

I am doing these steps on the command line on my Win 2000

% setenv CVSROOT :pserver:[e-mail]:/cvsroot
% cvs login
 
but after I have put the password anonymous I get a message 

Unknown host cvs-mirror.mozilla.org


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. % setenv CVSROOT :pserver:[e-mail]:/cvsroot
2.% cvs login
3.anonymous

Comment 1

[Isaac Hwak Han]

WFM. WinXP Prof.

Comment 2

[Nikola Pentchev]

Win 2000

Comment 3

[Gilles Durys]

Not MailNews.

Comment 4

[Vlad Dascalu]

Try mecha.mozilla.org instead and check if it works that way.

Also try a "telnet cvs-mirror.mozilla.org 2401" and report the output. If you
have multiple OSes check to see if it works from another OS.

Comment 5

[Nikola Pentchev]

What is the command line for mecha.mozilla.org? Please provide an example.

The telnet command isn't working.When I type telnet cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:2401 
I get the following output: Could not open a connection to host on port 23

Comment 6

[Colin Ogilvie [:cso]]

The telnet command would be:

telnet cvs-mirror.mozilla.org 2401

without a : between cvs-mirror.mozilla.org and 2401

To connect to mecha the command would be:

setenv CVSROOT :pserver:[e-mail]:/cvsroot
% cvs login
anonymous

Comment 7

[Nikola Pentchev]

I get the same errors. It doesn't work.

Comment 8

[benc]

What client are you using? Can you provide the results of "cvs -v"?

Also, you should check to see if you have a DNS problem?

nslookup cvs-mirror.mozilla.org should return something like this:

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    mecha.mozilla.org
Address:  207.126.111.200
Aliases:  cvs-mirror.mozilla.org

I think some steps to the problem are being left out, because in Windows, the
DOS shell uses "set=" not "setenv".  Why don't you cut and paste all the info
from your shell session?

Comment 9

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Since it's been almost 6 months since the last comment from the reporter, I'm
going to close this and assume it's working or a firewall problem on the
reporter's end.  nobody else is having trouble. :)

Comment 10

[Steven Erat]

Encountered this problem while trying to follow instructions on the NSPR Build doc: 
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/NSPR_build_instructions



WINDOWS
-------------
$ cvs -q -d :pserver:[e-mail]:/cvsroot co -r NSPR_4_8_R
TM mozilla/nsprpub
cvs [checkout aborted]: connect to cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:2401 failed: Attempt t
o connect timed out without establishing a connection

MAC
--------------
$ cvs -q -d :pserver:[e-mail]:/cvsroot co -r NSPR_4_8_RTM mozilla/nsprpub
cvs [checkout aborted]: connect to cvs-mirror.mozilla.org(63.245.215.44):2401 failed: Operation timed out
$ 
$ telnet cvs-mirror.mozilla.org 2401
Trying 63.245.215.44...
telnet: connect to address 63.245.215.44: Operation timed out
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

$ nslookup cvs-mirror.mozilla.org
Server:		NNNNNNNNNNNNNN
Address:	NNNNNNNNNNNNNN#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	cvs-mirror.mozilla.org
Address: 63.245.215.44

Comment 11

[Steven Erat]

As for the suggested alternative mecha:

$ ping mecha.mozilla.org
ping: cannot resolve mecha.mozilla.org: Unknown host

$ nslookup mecha.mozilla.org
Server:		NNNNNNNNNNNNNN
Address:	NNNNNNNNNNNNNN#53

** server can't find mecha.mozilla.org: NXDOMAIN