Allright, I'm on a LAN and trying to run a CVS repository on my LAN. I don't have a DNS name for my machine ,so I am just using it's IP address. I can ping the IP no trouble. But I cannot seem to coerce CVS to pick up on port 2041. I'm new to the linux networking model, but I did go into the etc/service and added:

cvspserver 2041/tcp # cvs pserver port

to it. This is wrong, it seems to promote contempt in my network's heart:-) Every time I externally try to reach this via the IP it cannot find the host. I restarted xinetd as well, so this isn't an issue of not initializing poperly. netstat -a doesn't seem to indicate an entry for 2041. What am I missing?

can you access the repository locally from that machine? i.e. can you checkout & commit files to the local machine?

yes, I knew there was one detail I was leaving out. THe repository works locally.