Selfupdate doesn't work - solved

[Dave Horsfall]

On Wed, 4 Mar 2015, Jim Goudie wrote:

> Then I got to thinking... what else would block it?  I logged in to my 
> router and found it has a firewall as well.  I turned it off, and then 
> the command worked!

I'm finding that a lot of consumer routers have conservative firewalls by 
default; this is good.

Think of it as a form of natural selection; if you know enough to turn it 
off or reconfigure it etc, then you probably aren't a danger to the 
Internet :-)

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