Philip Hands wrote: > You need to get your firewall admin to allow outbound masquerading of > rsync connections, probably, but all this is very dependent on your > exact firewall setup.
Ok, I have not a very deep knowledge of proxies. Will ask the firewall admin. > > > The numeric address of some ftp mirror could help (a.e. ftp.debian.org). > > I doubt it, but just in case, its: 216.66.54.50 It does not work. I cannot ping it. I did try to add a route, with no more success (answer is "SIOCADDRT: network not available) > I do think you're missing something fairly basic about the way you > local network is set up though, so you are asking the wrong question, > which is why I had trouble answering it. > > You need to find someone that understands the firewall and DNS setup > at your site, and talk to them about what you want to do. > Unless you're copying CDs from the debian sites, you won't see a great > benefit from using rsync anyway. If you're mirroring the archive, you > would probably be better off using a squid cache, and not bothering > with a mirror. Do not know the "squid cache". I will look for it. About the interest of the local mirror: it is used to maintain some Debian machines on the intranet of my org, and to keep a copy for home use (some, quite less, machines). You see, just to spare some bw. I want to try either rsync, mirror or apt-move as an alternative to lftp. As rsync is recommended by Debian (and used by apt-move), I choosed to try it first. I was pleased to read your answer and will keep you informed, Gaetan A. P.S.: When I try mailing to "debian-user@lists.debian.org", I got an "undelivered email" error: "Your message cannot be delivered to the recipient because his/her mail box storage limit has exceeded."
