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From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz>
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To: Spike Gronim <spork@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 11:25:27 +1300
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On 9 Jan 99, at 16:57, Spike Gronim wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Dan Langille wrote:
> 
> > I was installing tcp_wrapper.  So I did this:
> > 
> > [root@ns:/usr/ports/security/donkey] # make
> > >> donkey-0.5.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system.
> > 0.5.tar.gz: FTP error:
> > fetch: Can't open data connection
> 
> > OK.  That tells me it's in passive mode.  Now I could just drop the
> > firewall rules and do it again, but that's not good enough.  A read of
> > man fetch tells about an environment variable:  "FTP_PASSIVE_MODE  force
> > the use of passive mode FTP".
> 
> > So I did this: "set FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=Y" and tried again.  same errors.
> 
> You should set FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES in /etc/make.conf.

Thanks.  I've just tried the above.  It seems to have nil effect.

I'm positive this is a passive mode issue because of the following test I 
just performed:

# fetch without specifying passive mode

[root@orphil:/usr/ports/security/skip] # fetch 
ftp://ftp.replay.com/pub/replay/crypto/APPS/skip/skipsrc-1.0.tar.Z
fetch: ftp://ftp.replay.com/pub/replay/crypto/APPS/skip/skipsrc-1.0.tar.Z: 
FTP error:
fetch: Can't open data connection


# fetch specifying passive mode

[root@orphil:/usr/ports/security/skip] # fetch -P 
ftp://ftp.replay.com/pub/replay/crypto/APPS/skip/skipsrc-1.0.tar.Z
Receiving skipsrc-1.0.tar.Z (1887889 bytes):  7%^C
fetch: parsing URI: interrupted by signal: int

[root@ns:/usr/ports/security/skip] # 

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