[cvsnt] Cvs rlog fails accessing openssl.org repository

[Matt Seitz (matseitz)]

"Tony Hoyle" <tony.hoyle at march-hare.com> wrote in message news:<ftq836$qc1$1 at paris.nodomain.org>...
> Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
> 
> 
> Note that your root string is incomplete, leading to undefined behaviour.
> 
> anonymous at cvs.openssl.org:/openssl-cvs

That's the string specified at:

http://openssl.org/source/repos.html


> On cvsnt will use ssh by default.  On cvs it will use the old rsh 
> protocol by default (which I'm surprised works since it's rarely 
> implemented).
> 
> This would explain the difference in client behaviour.
> Anonymous access is rarely defined using either ssh or rsh - you 
> probably meant to use pserver as in:
> 
> :pserver:anonymous at cvs.openssl.org:/openssl-cvs

I also took a network trace using Cygwin "cvs".  That appears to also use SSH, and it works fine:

No.     Time        Source                Port   Destination           Port   Protocol Info
      1 0.000000    171.71.55.72          sixtrak 195.30.6.166          ssh    TCP      sixtrak > ssh [SYN] Seq=0 Win=64512 Len=0 MSS=1260

      2 0.180522    195.30.6.166          ssh    171.71.55.72          sixtrak TCP      ssh > sixtrak [SYN, ACK] Seq=0 Ack=1 Win=65535 Len=0 MSS=1380

      3 0.180592    171.71.55.72          sixtrak 195.30.6.166          ssh    TCP      sixtrak > ssh [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=1 Win=65520 Len=0

      4 0.407520    195.30.6.166          ssh    171.71.55.72          sixtrak SSHv2    Server Protocol: SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_4.7

      5 0.418043    171.71.55.72          sixtrak 195.30.6.166          ssh    SSHv2    Client Protocol: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.0

      6 0.617575    195.30.6.166          ssh    171.71.55.72          sixtrak SSHv2    Server: Key Exchange Init

      7 0.617709    171.71.55.72          sixtrak 195.30.6.166          ssh    SSHv2    Client: Key Exchange Init

      8 0.898047    195.30.6.166          ssh    171.71.55.72          sixtrak TCP      ssh > sixtrak [ACK] Seq=814 Ack=813 Win=65535 Len=0

      9 0.898110    171.71.55.72          sixtrak 195.30.6.166          ssh    SSHv2    Client: Diffie-Hellman GEX Request

     10 1.165616    195.30.6.166          ssh    171.71.55.72          sixtrak SSHv2    Server: Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Reply

     11 1.168353    171.71.55.72          sixtrak 195.30.6.166          ssh    SSHv2    Client: Diffie-Hellman GEX Init

     12 1.385325    195.30.6.166          ssh    171.71.55.72          sixtrak SSHv2    Server: Diffie-Hellman GEX Reply

     13 1.389548    171.71.55.72          sixtrak 195.30.6.166          ssh    SSHv2    Client: New Keys

     14 1.668784    195.30.6.166          ssh    171.71.55.72          sixtrak TCP      ssh > sixtrak [ACK] Seq=1686 Ack=997 Win=65535 Len=0

     15 1.668903    171.71.55.72          sixtrak 195.30.6.166          ssh    SSHv2    Encrypted request packet len=48

     16 1.848991    195.30.6.166          ssh    171.71.55.72          sixtrak SSHv2    Encrypted response packet len=48

     17 1.849332    171.71.55.72          sixtrak 195.30.6.166          ssh    SSHv2    Encrypted request packet len=80

     18 2.109869    195.30.6.166          ssh    171.71.55.72          sixtrak SSHv2    Encrypted response packet len=32