[Cod-bugs] Download using subversion or rsync not working

[Noel O'Boyle]

Thanks Saulius,

Apologies. As you suggested, I tried from another location and rsync seems
to be working fine. I've turned the firewall off on my machine so it looks
like it is being blocked higher up.

Regards,
- Noel

On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 15:23, Saulius Gražulis <grazulis at ibt.lt> wrote:

> Hi, Noel,
>
> sorry to hear that you have problems fetching the COD.
>
> I have just tried the commands on my machine and the commands from the
> documentation that you cite work.
>
> The "connection refused" indicated that your program (client) could not
> reach the necessary port on the COD server.
>
> Possible reasons:
>
> - your internet provider (university?) block the necessary ports for
> outgoing connections, except http(s)...
>
> you can check port blockage in several ways:
>
> a) by using rsync to other sites (e.g. PDB) from the same computer;
>
> b) by using rsync to the COD site from *another* computer that is less
> likely to be blocked;
>
> c) by using nmap to see what ports are open on the COD server from your
> computer.
>
> - somehow the IP number you are using ended up in a blacklist (although
> we should only blacklist the IPs that try to guess ssh passwords, not
> the rsync/svn users...). Could you please let us know which external IP
> number you are using?
>
> Of course you are always welcome to fetch the archive or download via
> http(s), this would be a workaround in the current case.
>
> We will think about providing Subversion access over https if the
> blockers of ports persist.
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Saulius
>
> On 2020-07-09 17:12, Noel O'Boyle wrote:
> > 've been trying to download the COD using the instructions at
> > https://wiki.crystallography.net/howtoobtaincod/.
> >
> > mkdir -p cif; rsync -av --delete rsync://www.crystallography.net/cif/
> > <http://www.crystallography.net/cif/> cif/
> > gives:
> > rsync: failed to connect to www.crystallography.net
> > <http://www.crystallography.net> (193.219.81.210): Connection refused
> (111)
> > rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(125)
> > [Receiver=3.1.2]
> >
> > while
> > svn co svn://www.crystallography.net/cod
> > <http://www.crystallography.net/cod>
> > gives:
> >
> > svn: E000111: Unable to connect to a repository at URL
> > 'svn://www.crystallography.net/cod <http://www.crystallography.net/cod>'
> > svn: E000111: Can't connect to host 'www.crystallography.net
> > <http://www.crystallography.net>': Connection refused
>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Saulius Gražulis
> Vilnius University Institute of Biotechnology, Saulėtekio al. 7
> LT-10257 Vilnius, Lietuva (Lithuania)
> fax: (+370-5)-2234367 / phone (office): (+370-5)-2234353
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>
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