tobuild file

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 19:02 +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> skvidal at phy.duke.edu (seth vidal) writes:
> 
> > Unless you have a compelling reason please don't submit anything new to
> > the tobuild file. Try out the 'make plague' option and report any
> > problems you have.
> 
> plague seems to try to connect directly with the buildserver. This will
> not work in most corporate or complex environments:

I'd wager the vast majority of plague users are going to be coming at it
from a corporate environment. This is a hobbyist distribution, remember?


As for complex environments - its a single port you need to connect to
outbound.

> | [ensc at kosh ~]$ plague-client list_builders
> | Error connecting to build server: '(110, 'Connection timed out')'
> 
> From the packet-filter:
> | [drop]   IN=eth0 OUT=eth2 SRC=192.168.46.2 DST=152.3.220.164 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=74 ID=15979 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=38501 DPT=8887 SEQ=3481872747 ACK=0 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 CWR ECE SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405B40402080A575FC6D00000000001030302) 
> 
> ($https_proxy is set to a correctly)
> 
> 
> You will have to add proxy support and let the buildserver listen on
> standard ports (443 would be appropriate as CONNECT is usually allowed
> for this ports).

I think proxy support should be added but switching things to 443 is
probably not going to happen.


-sv