From owner-freebsd-security Sat Apr 1 22:41: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from hydrant.intranova.net (hydrant.ncw.qc.ca [209.201.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3556C37B5A9 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 22:40:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oogali@intranova.net) Received: (qmail 7433 invoked from network); 2 Apr 2000 06:44:10 -0000 Received: from localhost.abuselabs.com (HELO localhost) (missnglnk@127.0.0.1) by localhost.abuselabs.com with SMTP; 2 Apr 2000 06:44:10 -0000 Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 01:44:10 -0500 (EST) From: Omachonu Ogali To: Nate Williams Cc: Jim Durham , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP with firewall rules In-Reply-To: <200004011825.LAA04705@nomad.yogotech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Why hack FTP when you can use 'pftp', why hack 'fetch' when you can set the environment variable for passive mode...just thought you'd like to know. On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Nate Williams wrote: > > I'm looking for some input on how to set up > > FTP through an IPFW firewall so that you don't > > have to run passive mode. > > > > Passive mode makes things like building ports difficult. > > Why? I've got it setup that way (been that way for a couple of years), > and things work fine. However, I do things a bit 'non-standard', and go > hack the sources to both ftp and fetch to make passive mode the > default on my boxes. :) > > > > Nate > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Omachonu Ogali oogali@intranova.net | | Intranova Networking Group http://tribune.intranova.net | | PGP Key ID: 0xBFE60839 | | PGP Fingerprint: C8 51 14 FD 2A 87 53 D1 E3 AA 12 12 01 93 BD 34 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message