From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 9 17:43:50 2002 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 7BD9C37B401 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 17:43:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gbronline.com (mail.gbronline.com [12.145.226.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C59E243E4A for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 17:43:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from DaleCoportable [12.145.236.167] by mail.gbronline.com (SMTPD32-7.13) id A95F3FF90230; Sat, 09 Nov 2002 19:41:51 -0600 Message-ID: <005701c2885a$175cd830$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." To: , "Alvaro Gil" References: Subject: Re: FTP Problems, enters passive mode and goes local. Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 19:40:02 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "Alvaro Gil" Subject: FTP Problems, enters passive mode and goes local. > Recently, i have been experiencing these ftp errors when I log in > from a remote location... > > It gives me a message "entering passive mode" and spits out the local > IP of the server. Why does it try to find it locally? What do I > need to change to fix this problem? > Turn passive mode off on the client. On most clients, the command 'passive' will toggle between states. I'm guessing that you're seeing the local IP because it's behind a NAT type setup........... Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message