Internet Apps (cvs, lynx, svn) spits out an error about not being able to connect to the internet

Igor Peshansky pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Thu May 18 13:51:00 GMT 2006


On Thu, 18 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote:

> On 18 May 2006 02:23, Charli Li wrote:
>
> > socket.  The internet features worked before some time, but now it is
> > completely blocked!
> > ---
> > BTW, is this a problem with Cygwin or is this a problem with my config?
>
>   10 to 1 you've misconfigured your firewall or anti-virus or similar
> security related software.  That's always been the commonest cause of
> cygwin network-related problems.

Yeah.  In some cases, "misconfigured" == "installed" :-)
	Igor
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