Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:05:37 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Frank Sonnemans <fs.mail@wanadoo.be> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fetching ports from behind a firewall Message-ID: <20010823090537.B64122@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <20010822132032.5133E49AC8@zoe.sbs-online.com>; from fs.mail@wanadoo.be on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 03:24:39PM %2B0200 References: <20010822132032.5133E49AC8@zoe.sbs-online.com>
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 03:24:39PM +0200, Frank Sonnemans wrote:
>
> I enabled ipfw on my machine and am no longer able to compile ports without
> disabling the firewall. My firewall allows outgoing ftp connections (keep
> state) which should make passive ftp connections possible.
>
> Fetching the source code still fails, even though the appropriate environment
> variable to use passive ftp has been set (from man 3 fetch).
>
> What am I missing?
An:
export FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES (for sh)
setenv FTP_PASSIVE_MODE YES (for csh)
and that should fix your problem.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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