From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 15 14:27:04 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 86BC616A401 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:27:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C7B113C474 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:27:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from vanquish.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com (vanquish.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com [192.168.2.61]) (SSL: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:27:03 -0500 id 00056418.45D46DB7.0001055C Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:27:03 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: Thomas Sparrevohn Message-Id: <20070215092703.917bb460.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <887050.9404.qm@web86605.mail.ird.yahoo.com> References: <887050.9404.qm@web86605.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.0 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fw: [Fwd: Re: A bit of a silly question - but I am desperate] 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, 15 Feb 2007 14:27:04 -0000 In response to Thomas Sparrevohn : > Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: > > Hi > > > > My old trusty FreeBSD server just died and naturally that happened days > > before the new machine arrived - fortunately I did not lose too much data - > > however I did lose my settings and that my problem > > > > Using a ADSL router with NAT and firewall settings (Open on http/https and > > outgoings) there was some setting I used to get "fetch http://{whatever}"; to > > work and I cannot remember what it was - The firewall settings has not > > changed - but every time I trying to get anything using "fetch > > http://{bla,bla}"; nothing come over - connection is fine By "connection is fine" you mean you can resolve domain names, ping other hosts, establish other types of connections, etc? > > Thanks in advance (PS. I am sure its trivial) - I just cannot remember what > > it was Are you referring to the FTP_PASSIVE_MODE environment variable? See man 3 fetch -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. wmoran@collaborativefusion.com Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 **************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this message to an intended recipient), please be advised that any re-use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. ****************************************************************