[cvsnt] RE: Server can't talk to itself, was: CVS tries connecting to localhost, want remote

[Dick Jackson]

Glen Starrett wrote:

> I think if you solve that problem then you'll have LockServer fixed. 
> Lockserver uses DNS to assign a nice name to a host IP address. 
> Disabling DNS should have only helped (assuming your reverse DNS is 
> broken), but certainly not negativly affected it otherwise.
> 
> Do you have some filtering on your router for that machine?  Are you 
> preventing that machine from communicating out?  Can you ping 
> ftp.apple.com (or for that matter, your DNS servers)?  It looks like 
> this is a network issue, not a CVSNT one.

Yep, ping works anywhere!

In any case, thanks to you and Bo, you've helped me to narrow the problem down
substantially.

All the best,
-Dick