Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 21:20:25 +0100 (CET) From: Joel Bjork <u98jobj@stud.hh.se> To: mike.jeays@statcan.ca Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FTP access to ports through a firewall Message-ID: <XFMail.010110212025.u98jobj@stud.hh.se> In-Reply-To: <3A66CAF3B5D3D4119AFD00508BC286ADE22BAF@msxa4.statcan.ca>
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On 10-Jan-01 mike.jeays@statcan.ca wrote: > Where do I find the code that fetches a distfile from a server on the > Internet, please? I presume this is done through FTP. > > We have an firewall that will not permit direct FTP connects, and I > would like to see if I can modify this bit of code to work in our > environment. Maybe it is harder than I think... > The portscollection uses fetch to retrieve files, usually over FTP. Assuming that your firewall allows passive ftp-transfers, fetch -P will work. fetch will also look for the FTP_PASSIVE_MODE environment variable, there's more on this in the manpage, it doesn't however tell you what to set it to so you're in for some trial and error. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Joel Bjork <u98jobj@stud.hh.se> Date: 10-Jan-01 Time: 21:20:25 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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