On Monday, March 20, 2000 3:08 PM, Keogh, Greg, HiServ/AU
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Hello from Melbourne Australia,
>
> Our new United Kingdom development group using WinCVS 1.0.6 is getting
the
> login error 'Unknown host techssna' (that's the name of our Solaris
server
> down here). We know they can access techssna via telnet and ping, so
we're
> puzzled where the 'Unknown host' message is coming from.
>
> I don't want to bother this group with our networking problems ... Here's
my
> real question:
>
> We know it's fine to use CVS on a LAN, as we do in our Melbourne office,
but
> is it valid to try and access a CVS server across the Internet? I just
want
> to check that we're not trying to do something conceptually wrong or
> impossible with CVS.
>
> I'm not a networking person, but I was under the impression that there
would
> be no distinction between using CVS over a LAN or over the Internet, so
long
> as the routing and security is setup correctly or course.
>
Yes it is technically possible, we are currently establishing the same via
a WAN, rather than internet. I'd suggest that it is your network that
needs to be tidied up. I don't know what access mechanism you are using,
but whatever it is, you need to make sure that it is open at your fire
walls.
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