Re: CVS access

[Toralf Lund <toralf kscanners com>]

"William F. Maton" wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, John S Jacobs Anderson wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to use CVS (to work around the multiple visual problems of my
> > work Solaris box; see the Gnome on Solaris thread for details).
> >
> > I'm following the instructions on
> > <URL:http://developer.gnome.org/tools/cvs.html>, and they aren't working. I
> > export the CVSROOT variable, but when I do `cvs login`, I get the message:
> >
> > connect to anoncvs.gnome.org:2401 failed: Connection refused
>
> This means that one of the anonymous CVS servers didn't work.  You could
> do two things:
>
> 1) define an IP address for anoncvs.gnome.org in your /etc/hosts (Obtained
> via dig, and please choose the one closest to you)
> 2) Just let the round-robin DNS work and keep trying the command.  This
> depends on your resolver doing the right thing.  (This is preferable.)

Actually, it looks like (at least) one of the servers in the DNS list refuses to
accept connections. Can someone check this, please?

- Toralf