Problem with CVS remote access

[Richard Earnshaw]

> I am trying to use CVS to check out the latest code.  I run into the
> following problem on my Red Hat 5.0 system running CVS 1.9 (rpm is
> cvs-1.9-4).  After doing a 'cvs login' I get the following error:
> 
> cvs [login aborted]: connect to egcs.cygnus.com:2401 failed: Connection
> refused
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> new to cvs,
> -Allen Gooch
> 

I see similar behaviour, but it appears to be a problem with our local 
firewall machine, since access from other sites is still ok.

Richard