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From: Ken Bolingbroke <ken@bolingbroke.com>
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Cc: Jim <jfreeze@freeze.org>
Subject: Re: Ports: make thru firewall
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Set your environment variable FTP_PASSIVE_MODE to YES.

Ken Bolingbroke
hacker@bolingbroke.com

On Thu, 11 May 2000, Jim wrote:

> Hi all:
> 
> Is there a way to get ports to retrieve files when you are behind a
> firewall/proxy.
> 
> I have asked this before, but the best I got was a reference to passive 
> mode in ftp. 
> 
> I could never figure this out. Am I supposed to edit every make file to
> use the -p for pftp command? Is there a control file that will do this?
> 
> Is there another way to get this to work?
> 
> An example would be very much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
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