RealPlayer and Gentoo Q's

[Steven Elling]

On Tuesday 08 July 2003 23:26, Adrian Gordinier wrote:
> I have two questions/problems.
>
> (2.) A while back I "attempted" to install Gentoo from stage 1 tarball
> but when you get to the first emerge sync that creates the portage tree
> I can't go any further it seems that I can't connect or something. I can
> ping out to sites and stuff and I even put that system in my router's
> DMZ and still no luck emerging. Would there still be some protocols
> blocked in the DMZ that wouldn't allow it to work. Do you Gentoo guys do
> anything special when you update?

>From the rsync man page:

CONNECTING TO AN RSYNC SERVER

It is also possible to use rsync without a remote shell as the transport.  
In this case you will connect to a remote rsync server running on TCP port 
873.

You may establish the connection via a web proxy by setting  the environment 
variable  RSYNC_PROXY  to  a  hostname:port  pair pointing to your web 
proxy. Note that your web proxy´s configuration must allow proxying to port 
873.
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You mentioned router and DMZ so I would guess you are using a firewall 
server appliance.  What you need to do is make sure your firewall will 
allow connections to TCP port 873 on the rsync servers.