Hi,

I've been cranking out a fairly large number of Perl scripts.
It was getting pretty hard to keep track of what worked, why I started a new rev and so on.
I decided to install nongnu.org/cvs/ CVS and since I'm still (mostly) on a windows box, I also installed CVSNT, from .march-hare.com/cvspro/ March-Hare
(I have Ubuntu installed but haven't weaned completely yet)
To the best of my knowledge CVS is the same on Window$ and Unix/Linux.

The installation went alright, and I set up a repository.

Now for whats bothering me.

I have ZoneAlarm installed and it tells me the program is going out to 216.120.246.131 when I use it, which resolves to host60.hrwebservices.net.
I searched around on the March-Hare Wiki and looked through the faq's but I didn't find anything helpfull.

Why in the world should this be occuring? I suspect it's a way of tracking usage, but don't really know. (I've never used CVS before)

I do know I don't like it. I block virtually everything going out from my box as a potential security risk. (Love Window$ security, don't we all?)

Any help will be appreciated.

Roy.

I haven't used the March-Hare CVSNT, but I use The Cygwin CVS all the time. It is definitely odd that it tries to do that. If you want an alternative, the Cygwin environment is great not only for utilities like CVS, but also if you want most of the other standard UNIX utilities. (I use the Cygwin bash shell all the time instead of a DOS shell now.)

Just out of curiousity, how is your system setup? Is your repository local and you are accessing it locally, or on another system on your local network? If on the network how do you access it? An SSH remote shell, or pserver, or some other way? Even if it's accessing your repository on the local network, it is real strange that it goes to that specific IP, though....

I had it set up local.

I ran it for a while and it didn't just go to that 1 address, it went to several closely related.
69.225.175.97, 69.225.175.90, etc as well as 216.120.246.131.

I installed the gui for it as well and after having to click to allow it out 1 too many times I had enough and uninstalled the whole mess.
Except I had to install Python for the scripts, and kept it on the principle that you can never have too many languages. ;-)

I think I'll check out Cygwin, I've only used commercial packages in the past, and I'm kind of spoiled from the point-and-click ease of use.

I working on a pretty complex program/script and I've reached the point of desperation trying to keep track of what the heck I did last.
(and how did I break it this time!)

Thanks for the reply.

Roy.

ps, I just noticed you're pretty close to me, I'm over by the Rose Garden, small world, huh.

cygwin is fantastic

I use CVS in cygwin.

I'm stuck with a windows machine on my desk at work
but cygwin is just like having a little alien unix machine inside.
you can do stuff on your windows files using unix tools.

You need, gdb say. Start the installer again, pick it from a list, and it installs it and sets it up for you.



I am even running apache with CGI scripts via cygwin.

Cool. My office isn't too far from south from you in San Jose on Meridian. Just moved here from North Dakota about 3 months ago. Huge change.

As another alternative, there is also WinCVS which gives you a CVS GUI. I haven't used it much myself as I use Cygwin anyway for stuff and have gotten pretty comfortable in a bash shell environment.

cvsnt does not attempt to access any of the addresses mentioned in the first post. No tracking is done (it's an innefective method of guaging usage especially since 90% of the time it's behind corporate firewalls which wouldn't let the connection out anyway).

The only IP addresses that cvsnt will use are:

1. Itself (127.0.0.1) for communicating with the lockserver.
2. In the event a server crash happens it'll attempt to send the crashdump (about 5k by default) to 69.93.197.231 - most users will never see this.
3. It'll listen on port 2401 for incoming connections. Windows firewall notices this and pops up a warning.

No other access is done by cvsnt itself.

This suggests that the OP has a virus or spyware, or that zonealarm is misreporting.

Please post a message describing the problems that you experienced with CVSNT to the CVSNT newsgroup:
http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt
or
news://news.cvsnt.org/support.cvsnt

CVSNT does not contact the addresses you mentioned (69.225.175.97, 69.225.175.90, etc as well as 216.120.246.131 / host60.hrwebservices.net).

It is possible that the CVSNT you obtained was infected with a virus or spyware. You should preferably download the latest version from the march-hare.com web site.

The only outside connections that CVSNT makes are to 69.93.197.231 if it crashes, as explained here:
http://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/faq/faq6.asp#6a

Regards,


Arthur Barrett

It is possible, but unlikely, that I had adware or a virus. I scanned for both, and found none.

The problem disappeared when I un-installed the program and hasn't recurred since.
I did in fact download from March-Hare.

I am intrigued enough by the posts here that I will download it again and re-install to see if it behaves the same and post the results. May take a day or so before I get to it.

Roy.