[TUHS] Trouble wih TUHS rsync

[TUHS] Trouble wih TUHS rsync

[Dave Horsfall]

Am I the only one having trouble?  I mirror the site, and I'm now seeing:

aneurin# tuhs
+ rsync -avz minnie.tuhs.org::UA_Root .
rsync: failed to connect to minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53): Operation timed out (60)
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(125) [Receiver=3.1.2]
+ rsync -avz minnie.tuhs.org::UA_Applications Applications
rsync: failed to connect to minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53): Operation timed out (60)
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(125) [Receiver=3.1.2]

Etc.

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."

[TUHS] Trouble wih TUHS rsync

[Warren Toomey]

On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 11:52:29AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>Am I the only one having trouble?  I mirror the site, and I'm now seeing:
>aneurin# tuhs

Works for me here:

rsync -av minnie.tuhs.org::UA_Root .

Welcome to the rsync server for the Unix Archive. If you are only interested
in browsing the Unix Archive, then please see the list of mirrors at
http://www.tuhs.org/archive_sites.html.


receiving incremental file list
....

Can you telnet minnie.tuhs.org 873?
	Warren

Trying 45.79.103.53...
Connected to minnie.tuhs.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
@RSYNCD: 31.0

[TUHS] Trouble wih TUHS rsync

[Dave Horsfall]

On Sat, 21 Oct 2017, Warren Toomey wrote:

> Can you telnet minnie.tuhs.org 873?

No, and my firewall allows all outbound connections (and their stateful
responses)...

What are others seeing?

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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."

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[Will Senn]

Works for me (Texas).

On 10/20/17 9:10 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Oct 2017, Warren Toomey wrote:
>
>> Can you telnet minnie.tuhs.org 873?
>
> No, and my firewall allows all outbound connections (and their stateful
> responses)...
>
> What are others seeing?
>

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[Steve Nickolas]

On Sat, 21 Oct 2017, Warren Toomey wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 11:52:29AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> Am I the only one having trouble?  I mirror the site, and I'm now seeing:
>> aneurin# tuhs
>
> Works for me here:
>
> rsync -av minnie.tuhs.org::UA_Root .
>
> Welcome to the rsync server for the Unix Archive. If you are only interested
> in browsing the Unix Archive, then please see the list of mirrors at
> http://www.tuhs.org/archive_sites.html.
>
>
> receiving incremental file list
> ....
>
> Can you telnet minnie.tuhs.org 873?
> 	Warren
>
> Trying 45.79.103.53...
> Connected to minnie.tuhs.org.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> @RSYNCD: 31.0
>

Works from my PC and from one of my hosted servers.  (Haven't tried 
anything else.)

-uso.

[TUHS] Trouble wih TUHS rsync

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

> On Oct 20, 2017, at 7:10 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> 
>> Can you telnet minnie.tuhs.org 873?

Yes, both from Shaw Cable in Vancouver, and ARP Networks in Los Angeles.

[TUHS] Trouble wih TUHS rsync

[Dave Horsfall]

Hmmm...  OK, thanks all; looks like I get to debug my firewall.

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."

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[Bakul Shah]

On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 16:33:14 +1100 Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
Dave Horsfall writes:
> Hmmm...  OK, thanks all; looks like I get to debug my firewall.

This is where a shell acct on a friends' system or your isp
can help.  That rescued me a number of times recently!

[TUHS] Trouble wih TUHS rsync

[Larry McVoy]

On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 11:09:48AM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 16:33:14 +1100 Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> Dave Horsfall writes:
> > Hmmm...  OK, thanks all; looks like I get to debug my firewall.
> 
> This is where a shell acct on a friends' system or your isp
> can help.  That rescued me a number of times recently!

So I can provide accounts on mcvoy.com if people need a place to ping from.
I'm sort of well connected, 6 milliseconds from berkeley.edu which is not
bad considering I'm in the middle of nowhere.

If you want an account there is no incoming email for you but outgoing 
works.  If that's interesting to you then send me you public key and
I'll set it up.
-- 
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Larry McVoy            	     lm at mcvoy.com             http://www.mcvoy.com/lm 

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[Dave Horsfall]

On Sat, 21 Oct 2017, Bakul Shah wrote:

>> Hmmm...  OK, thanks all; looks like I get to debug my firewall.
>
> This is where a shell acct on a friends' system or your isp can help. 
> That rescued me a number of times recently!

Indeed, but I lost my accounts on my friends' systems when they upgraded, 
so I should ask them nicely again (in return for an account, of course).

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."

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[Steve Nickolas]

On Sat, 21 Oct 2017, Bakul Shah wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 16:33:14 +1100 Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> Dave Horsfall writes:
>> Hmmm...  OK, thanks all; looks like I get to debug my firewall.
>
> This is where a shell acct on a friends' system or your isp
> can help.  That rescued me a number of times recently!
>

I have a combination of such - two of my friends rent a ton of VPSes and 
dedicated hosting servers, and I have access to most of them - plus I have 
two such servers of my own.  That's Linux boxen, FreeBSD boxen, a Solaris 
box, ... I don't know what other unices my Portuguese friend has on his 
servers, but he's quite the aficionado, which comes in handy sometimes. XD

-uso.

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[Dave Horsfall]

On Sat, 21 Oct 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote:

> Hmmm...  OK, thanks all; looks like I get to debug my firewall.

Problem found; I had the audacity to elevate the security on my router 
from "medium" to "custom" (so I could define some IP blocks against some 
persistent spam sources) and it took out NTP/WHOIS/RSYNC/you-name-it as 
well; I'd say that it helpfully blocked all UDP or something.

The filters never did work anyway; if ever you see a Sagecomm F at st 5355 
(yeah, a wanky name, so you can imagine the target audience) wireless 
router then run, do not walk, away from it, as it's a bucket of putrid 
snot.

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."

[TUHS] Trouble wih TUHS rsync

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

Dave Horsfall reported failures for the TUHS mirror at his site.

I've just looked at our TUHS mirror in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, and
found that

	% rsync rsync://rsync.math.utah.edu

produces the expected list.

I also checked the mirror cron job logs, and found that they all look
similar for every day this year, with no indication of connection
errors.

I then checked the TUHS filesystem tree, and found only two files
created in the last month (timestamps in UTC):

	-rw-rw-r-- 1 mirror mirror  99565 Oct 20 17:27 UA_Documentation/TUHS/Mail_list/2017-October.txt.gz
	-rw-rw-r-- 1 mirror mirror 400419 Sep 30 17:27 UA_Documentation/TUHS/Mail_list/2017-September.txt.gz

The first of those arrived here late last night (Oct 20 23:15 MDT, Oct
21 05:15 UTC).

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