From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Apr 19 12:27:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from socrates.nmia.com (socrates.nmia.com [198.59.166.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9639637B543 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 12:27:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ripper@nmia.com) Received: from plato.nmia.com(really [198.59.166.165]) by socrates.nmia.com via sendmail with smtp id for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:27:38 -0600 (MDT) (Smail-3.2.0.106 1999-Mar-31 #3 built 1999-Apr-19) Received: by plato.nmia.com id m12i08P-0011c0C; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:27:37 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: Subject: Re: ftp passive? To: sean@stat.Duke.EDU Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:27:37 -0600 (MDT) From: "Ross A Lippert" Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20000419145910.E19246@stat.Duke.EDU> from "Sean O'Connell" at Apr 19, 2000 02:59:10 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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