Re: [vox-tech] More debian questions

["Jay Strauss" <MAPSjjstrauss@yahoo.com>]

Jeff,

I have my deb machine sitting behind a linksys firewall/dsl router.  I'm
forwarding port 22 to my deb machine, no other ports are forwarded.  I can
ping out from my deb box, but I don't think that the linksys responds to a
ping from the outside. Do I need to open/forward back for netselect to work?

I read this too:

>    Beginning with the 0.3 version, netselect package includes the
>    netselect-apt script, which makes the process above automatic.
>
> "testing" installed 0.2 when I asked it for netselect.

How (exactly) do I find out the version (I have to suspect its the latest
version, I installed last night).  I tried:

deb:~# netselect -v
Usage: netselect [-v] [-vv] [-t min_tries] [-m max_ttl] host [host...]
deb:~# netselect -vv
Usage: netselect [-v] [-vv] [-t min_tries] [-m max_ttl] host [host...]
deb:~# netselect -V
netselect: invalid option -- V
Usage: netselect [-v] [-vv] [-t min_tries] [-m max_ttl] host [host...]
deb:~# netselect --help
netselect: invalid option -- -
Usage: netselect [-v] [-vv] [-t min_tries] [-m max_ttl] host [host...]
deb:~#

Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Newmiller" <jdnewmil@dcn.davis.ca.us>
To: <vox-tech@franz.mother.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: [vox-tech] More debian questions


> On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Jay Strauss wrote:
>
> > The howto at:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html
> >
> > says I can find fastest ftp site by using "netselect" but it doesn't
give me
> > any output, for example (straight out of the doc):
> >
> > deb:/# netselect ftp.debian.org http.us.debian.org ftp.at.debian.org
> > download.unesp.br \
> > > ftp.debian.org.br
> > deb:/#
>
> Works for me.  Grasping: do you have pings disallowed in your firewall
> setup?
>
> >
> > furthermore it says I should be able to this automatically by doing
> > "netselect-apt"
> >
> > deb:/# netselect-apt stable
> > su: netselect-apt: command not found
> > deb:/#
> >
> > Why don't I have it on my sys?  I did a "apt-get install netselect"
>
> From the referenced page:
>
>    Beginning with the 0.3 version, netselect package includes the
>    netselect-apt script, which makes the process above automatic.
>
> "testing" installed 0.2 when I asked it for netselect.
>
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