From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 20 13:10:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA20421 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 13:10:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from INET_PRIME.comshare.com (root@[130.211.100.75]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA20413 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 13:10:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from babel.comshare.com (babel.comshare.com [130.211.100.41]) by INET_PRIME.comshare.com (8.7.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA09197 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 16:15:27 -0500 (EST) Received: by babel.comshare.com with Microsoft Mail id <31015A06@babel.comshare.com>; Sat, 20 Jan 96 16:09:26 EST From: Chris Overbeek To: "'BSD'" Subject: ftp'ing BSD through a proxy server Date: Sat, 20 Jan 96 16:09:00 EST Message-ID: <31015A06@babel.comshare.com> Encoding: 19 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I want to obtain freeBSD for use as an Intra-net (internal only) web server for experimental and development purposes. I have one small problem. I can't seem to ftp through our firewall using the freeBSD install ftp client. I have tried several things and read the docs over and over, but don't seem to get anywhere. The only helpful info I have is that, our internal gateway is different than the external one. (ie. the proxy is not my default gateway for tcp/ip.) Using netscape on my NT machine I can anonymously ftp if I set "proxies" to have our proxy server's address and port 8080. In the BSD docs, it says to add 8080 to the URL (ie ftp//:foo.bar.com:8080/pub...) what IP address (ie foo.bar.com) should I use? I tried the url of the mirror site, no luck. I tried the address of the proxy server (which I figured wouldn't work, since the BSD dist isn't there....) and it also didn't work. I tried using the proxy server's address as the gateway and that also didn't work. However I know it is possible to get out through the proxy... Any suggestions? Chris