On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Dieter Maurer wrote:

Last week, I reported about inconsistencies with the Zope CVS.

With Ken's help, I could find out that my problems have not been caused by the Zope CVS but by my local configuration:

I had an entry for "cvs.zope.org" in my "hosts" file.

While "cvs" looked there to resolve the host into an internet address, "nslookup" bypassed the hosts file and directly contacted the DNS server. Therefore, I did not detect that I had a stale internet address for "cvs.zope.org" and got an old and inconsistent checkout as a consequence.

Thank you, Ken, for your assistance!

Thanks, dieter, for reporting the result to the list! For my part, i have (and wish i earlier had) prevented similar occurrences by inhibiting CVS pserver on the old cvs.zope.org. This way, anyone accidentally trying to do pserver checkouts from there would have them fail, rather than getting checkouts that are surprising in painfully obscure ways. (There then will be a possibly obscure failure to connect, but that should be easier to recognize, and less insidious...) Ken klm@zope.com