Re: [Fink-beginners] What is fink default communication port for fink selfupdate

[Martin C. <cos...@wa...>]

On 24/01/11 11:32 , Kann Vearasilp wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am using fink with my macbook and has been working fine with the
> network at home; however, there is always a problem with the connection
> at work. It seems that the IT guy at my office blocks few unused
> communication ports, which made me unable to connect to fink's cvs or
> rsync server. This causes me unable to perform fink selfupdate while I
> am at work at all. I contacted the IT staff, but he is not so familiar
> with both fink and mac. However, he does ask me to tell him which port
> fink is using, so he can open that communication port just for my
> macbook. Do you know which port fink is using for the selfupdate command?

Fink selfupdate uses the rsync command for the rsync method and the cvs 
command for the cvs method. There is nothing Fink-specific about these 
commands. If you want to see whether rsync is getting through, you can 
run it by hand, for example:

  rsync rsync://ber.de.eu.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/

If the connection works, this will list the contents of the top 
directory of that server.

 From what I can tell here, the rsync command uses the port 873 (= 
"rsync"), and the cvs command uses, for anonymous checkout by the 
pserver protocol, the port 2401 (= "cvspserver"). The list of the 
association of protocols with ports is stored in /etc/services.

-- 
Martin