From owner-freebsd-security Mon Apr 3 11:13:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A0CA37B526 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 11:13:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustidentd@obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA13620; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 12:12:50 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <38E8DF28.8846A1ED@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 12:12:56 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams Cc: Jim Durham , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP with firewall rules References: <38E159DF.3D7E5DF6@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> <200004011825.LAA04705@nomad.yogotech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. :) Passive mode appears to be the default on NetBSD lately. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message