Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> with a firewall blocking outgoing connections to port 9418 a
>
> git clone git://...
>
> of git 1.6.6 seems to never return, i.e. loop forever. in my rather
> automated environment (gentoo's tool layman calling git) this behavior
> is rather troublesome - i need some kind of abort-and-error instead:
> what i'm trying to do is loop over a number of clone URL alternatives of
> the same repository like ..
>
> git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/dev/dberkholz.git
What do you exactly mean by "blocking"?
In my environment at work, there is a firewall and I immedately get this:
$ git clone git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/dev/dberkholz.git/
Initialized empty Git repository in /var/tmp/dberkholz/.git/
fatal: Unable to look up git.overlays.gentoo.org (port 9418) (Name or service not known)
as my environment is quite isolated (it is not just a "NAT with selective
port blocking").
I am guessing that you can resolve the hostname in your environment
(i.e. you configured your NAT to let DNS go directly outside). What
happens when you try the following?
$ telnet git.overlays.gentoo.org 9418
Do you get:
Trying 66.219.59.40...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
If you get something like:
Trying 66.219.59.40...
Connected to pelican.gentoo.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
then I don't think you are blocked, and if that is the case, there is not
much we can do about it.
I think your firewall can help, though, by not pretending to be allowing
the connection and then blocking you halfway.
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