From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 14 20:57:22 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BC7316A41F for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:57:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0523313C448 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:57:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay6.apple.com (relay6.apple.com [17.128.113.36]) by mail-out3.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BA8B8DA544; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:56:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay6.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay6.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id CA7461006A; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:57:21 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807124-a0ec8bb000000801-c0-4671abb165fd Received: from [17.214.13.96] (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay6.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 4F6551004D; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:57:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <61C453CD-4FCE-4B99-8CF2-F666E5292F76@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:57:20 -0700 To: Vlad GURDIGA X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pf(4) + fetch(1) + http://ftp.gnu.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:57:22 -0000 On Jun 14, 2007, at 1:36 PM, Vlad GURDIGA wrote: > There is one strange thing going on with this combination. I saw this > many times by now: when fetch(1) is trying to download something from > http://ftp.gnu.org, it is hanging after a very small amount of data; > sometimes on 0%. After disabling pf(4), fetch(1) is not hanging any > more, so I guess that the problem is somewhere in my pf.conf. Here is > it: Presumably you want to make sure that fetch(1) is using: FTP_PASSIVE_MODE If set to anything but `no', forces the FTP code to use passive mode. ...or else your firewall is probably going to block active-mode FTP data traffic. See "man 3 fetch". -- -Chuck