Re: Problems with apt behind a firewall

[Tomas Bautista <bautista@cma.ulpgc.es>]

On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Tomas Bautista wrote:
> 
> > Dear Sirs,
> > 
> > I've been using apt-get behind a firewall without problems with 0.1.1X
> > versions with the ftp method, but as far as I have changed it for the
> > 0.1.2 it does not work any more.
> 
> What sort of firewall and can you be more specific about the "doesn't
> work" bit?

We have a firewall in which for connecting to a machine outside we have to
connect first to this machine with the ftp program and from there it asks
for the username. At this point we then have to type
anonymous@machine.domain.

Where I typed 0.1.1X it was wrong -- it was 0.0.1X. Apt worked on this
environment up to version 0.0.17-1 without problems, but as I have
upgraded to 0.1.2 it has stopped working. In fact, I have tried to verify
if the libnet-perl was correctly configured and it is so. For instance,
this perl script works pretty fine:

  #!/usr/bin/perl

  use Net::FTP;

  $ftp = Net::FTP->new("non-US.debian.org");
  $ftp->login("anonymous","bautista\@cma.ulpgc.es");
  $ftp->cwd("/pub/debian/dists/stable/contrib/binary-i386");
  $ftp->get("Packages.gz");
  $ftp->quit;

But for the apt with the /etc/apt/sources.list saying:

  deb ftp://non-US.debian.org/pub/debian stable main

the `apt-get update' command complains with

root@mocan:~/tmp# apt-get update
Get ftp://non-US.debian.org stable/main Packages
Error ftp://non-US.debian.org stable/main Packages
 ftp_connect: Could not connect
ERROR
ftp://non-US.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
  ftp_connect: Could not connect

Thank you very much in advance,

   Tomás.

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