[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase throughed shared internet connection

[Francesco Peeters]

Mike Harrison schreef:
> I recently helped a friend setup myth on a fresh ubuntu breezy install. 
> We set the whole thing up at my place because he doesn't have a 
> broadband connection. When he left my place everything was working 
> perfectly. He has since told me that when he got home and tried to run 
> mythfilldatabase to connect to zap2it, the connection timed out.
> 
> His setup at home is he has dial-up connection on a windows box. He 
> connects to the windows machine through a wired router from his myth box 
> using internet connection sharing. He has made sure that he has an 
> internet connection before trying to run mythfilldatabase. He can ping 
> the windows machine. He can connect to websites.
> 
> What could be causing mythfilldatabase to timeout while connecting to 
> zap2it?
> 

Last time I looked, the Shared Internet Connection stuff only worked for 
Windows boxes, as it required installation of a kind of proxy client. 
The only exception to that was web access (port 80 and 443) from proxy 
capable browsers...

I'm not sure whether that is still valid for the current version, but it 
might be something to look at... (Does the zap2it client code allow for 
a proxy to be defined?)

(Just trying to give you some hints to start (or continue) your 
troubleshooting)

Good luck!

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Francesco Peeters
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