> I don't recognise the firewall rule syntax, so I don't know if there's
> anything wrong with it.

neither do i :-) its cisco IOS stuff i think, but i'm not much of a
network person.

both wget and ftp work fine:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/justin$ ftp home.exetel.com.au
Connected to el.exetel.com.au.
220 ProFTPD 1.2.9 Server (home.exetel.com.au) [el.exetel.com.au]
Name (home.exetel.com.au:justin): 0295664082
331 Password required for 0295664082.
Password:
230 User 0295664082 logged in.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp>

justin-desktop:/home/justin$ wget http://slug.org.au
--08:59:19--  http://slug.org.au/
           => `index.html'
Resolving slug.org.au... 138.25.7.4
Connecting to slug.org.au[138.25.7.4]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 5,002 [text/html]

100%[====================================>] 5,002         --.--K/s

08:59:19 (171.84 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [5002/5002]

anyone got any other ideas?

thanks 
justin

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 08:57:43 +1100, Jan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 08:04 +1100, justin randell wrote:
> > hi all,
> >
> > since the network firewall was tightened where i work, i can't get
> > apt-get to work.
> >
> > i can't figure out why, because i thought apt-get used ftp and http,
> > and both of these are allowed through:
> 

> 
> apt-get should only require http and ftp as you say, so I would try
> using wget and ftp type rules on the commandline to check whether they
> work.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jan
> 
>
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