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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@iafrica.com>
To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: FTP client dies when not in passive mode? 
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On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 18:14:25 GMT, Karl Pielorz wrote:

> Is there any way to stop the FTP client from either taking _ages_, or
> just dying stone dead (i.e. CTRL-\ is the only way out - forcing a
> core dump) when connecting through Firewalls that only allow Passive
> FTP?

alias ftp='ftp -p'

	or

alias ftp='pftp'

See the ftp(1) manpage for an explanation.

In future, please refer general questions related to FreeBSD to the
freebsd-questions mailing list -- freebsd-current is for issues relating
specifically to CURRENT (4.0-CURRENT at the moment).

Thanks,
Sheldon.


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