From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Sep 20 17:09:57 2006
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: questions@FreeBSD.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BE5D16A47B
	for <questions@FreeBSD.org>; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:09:57 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from ggroth@gregs-garage.com)
Received: from mail.gregs-garage.com (h-64-105-8-34.chcgilgm.covad.net
	[64.105.8.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EC1E43D76
	for <questions@FreeBSD.org>; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:09:45 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from ggroth@gregs-garage.com)
Received: from [10.10.10.124] (localhost.gregs-garage.com [127.0.0.1])
	by mail.gregs-garage.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74843114024
	for <questions@FreeBSD.org>; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:11:15 -0500 (CDT)
Message-ID: <451176C6.4050706@gregs-garage.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:13:42 -0500
From: Greg Groth <ggroth@gregs-garage.com>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: questions@FreeBSD.org
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: 
Subject: portmanager ftp question.
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:09:57 -0000

Here's the situation, I have 3 BSD servers sitting behind a pfsense 
firewall.  When I run portmanager on any of the 3 servers, inevitably it 
runs into a distfile that can't be downloaded from an FTP site. 
Although I haven't checked the log files on the firewall, I'm fairly 
positive this is an active / passive issue.  My workaround right now is 
to download the required distfile to a machine on the LAN (sitting 
behind the pfsense firewall), and SCP it to the server, and restart 
portmanager.  I've played around with the FTP helper settings on 
pfsense, to no avail.  Is there a way to globally set active or passive 
FTP connections on the servers so portmanager will work correctly?  I'll 
occasionally run into the same issue when building a new port as well. 
I'm not sure what app the machine is using to download the distfiles, 
wget?  If this is the case, my question would be is there a way to set a 
configuration for wget to use either active or passive ftp connections 
all the time, no matter which process is calling it?

Best regards,
Greg Groth