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RE: Internet Apps (cvs, lynx, svn) spits out an error about not being able to connect to the internet
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- Cc: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 09:51:34 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: Internet Apps (cvs, lynx, svn) spits out an error about not being able to connect to the internet
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On Thu, 18 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 18 May 2006 02:23, Charli Li wrote:
>
> > socket. The internet features worked before some time, but now it is
> > completely blocked!
> > ---
> > BTW, is this a problem with Cygwin or is this a problem with my config?
>
> 10 to 1 you've misconfigured your firewall or anti-virus or similar
> security related software. That's always been the commonest cause of
> cygwin network-related problems.
Yeah. In some cases, "misconfigured" == "installed" :-)
Igor
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