Aha! Thanks very much Fred, this arrived just after I sent a message asking for confirmation of exactly that :-)
Looks like it's the standard 3690 port, I'll go talk to our poor beleaguered admins... thanks again! -PW Fred Drake said: > On 9/30/05, Paul Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> One thing Tino suggested: it might be a firewall issue. >> Does svn's externals-fetching look somehow different to a firewall >> than does a regular (non-external) checkout? >> When I tried checking out on my laptop, I noticed that ZoneAlarm asked >> 'me if I wanted to allow svn.exe to use the internet at exactly the >> moment that it was time to fetch the externals. Weird - doesn't it >> still use ssh? What's different? > > Tino's on the right track; the externals do NOT use ssh; they use an > unauthenticated connection and cannot be used to commit changes (by > intent). > > So it could be a firewall issue; some different port needs to be > opened. The Subversion documentation should tell you what's needed. > > > -Fred > > -- > Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at gmail.com> > Zope Corporation > _______________________________________________ > Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )