> 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 > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
