Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 11:56:21 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Andre Gironda <andre@sun4c.net> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP with firewall rules Message-ID: <200004011856.LAA04865@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <20000401110144.A319@toaster.sun4c.net> References: <38E159DF.3D7E5DF6@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> <200004011825.LAA04705@nomad.yogotech.com> <20000401110144.A319@toaster.sun4c.net>
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> export/setenv http_proxy! Huh? > of course, you have to find all of the distfiles manually, since only > about 4% of them have an http site to download the source from. That's irrelevant. You can still download *ALL* of them via passive-mode ftp. I have yet to find a site that didn't let me download with ftp in passive mode, so if you are *truly* interested in security, then you certainly don't want to open up so people can use active-mode ftp from behind your firewall. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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