Re: [9fans] Plan 9 system behind firewall

[Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>]

A long delay when connecting to a server behind a firewall may be an
attempt to connect to the secstore port.

Terminals booting with a remote fileserver, and some configurations of
drawterm, will look for a secstore server, by default at address
tcp!$auth!5356.  If the auth machine isn't running auth/secstored,
normally the client will immediately receive a tcp RST to show that
the port is closed.  But if a firewall is blocking the port by
silently dropping packets, you'll get a long timeout instead.

Can you configure the firewall to open tcp port 5356?  If not, you can
specify a different secstore address with argument '-s address' for
drawterm, or by replying 'okamoto@address' instead of just 'okamoto'
to the user: prompt when booting.  If you don't have a secstore, just
give an invalid dial string:
  user: okamoto@!
or
  drawterm -c cpuserver -a authserver -s !