Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:27:37 -0600 (MDT) From: "Ross A Lippert" <ripper@plato.nmia.com> To: sean@stat.Duke.EDU Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftp passive? Message-ID: <m12i08P-0011c0C@plato.nmia.com> In-Reply-To: <20000419145910.E19246@stat.Duke.EDU> from "Sean O'Connell" at Apr 19, 2000 02:59:10 PM
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So, here is something that might be a bug. I set FTP_PASSIVE_MODE="NO" and low and behold, ftp started working again. I thought I could make use of ports now but nooooo. The problem now is in fetch. The funny thing about fetch is that while ftp will be active when FTP_PASSIVE_MODE='NO', fetch will go into passive mode if FTP_PASSIVE_MODE is set at all. In order to make any ports, one must unsetenv FTP_PASSIVE_MODE-- setting it to 'NO' is not enough. If that don't beat all. -r > > Ross A Lippert stated: > > Ouch! I'm actually behind a firewall, though it is exceedingly permissive > > for outgoing connections, and passive seems to really screw it up. > > Ironic. > > Hmmm... curious. > > > There is no mention of this login.conf flag in the manpage for ftp, which > > says explicitly that ftp without -p should be active. Should this be > > brought to the attention of SomeBody (tm)? > > It does mention the FTP_PASSIVE_MODE under the ENVIRONMENT section. > I guess it doesn't mention how it goes about having passive as the > default. > > S > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sean O'Connell Email: sean@stat.Duke.EDU > Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Phone: (919) 684-5419 > Duke University Fax: (919) 684-8594 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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