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To: mika ruohotie <bsdcvs@shadows.aeon.net>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf 
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Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 05:45:47 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> the make.conf 'FTP_PASSIVE_MODE= YES' means that behind a firewall
> it's something to be used so that ftp makes passive requests and
> thus "works", right?

Right.  It's used by the standard FTP:

root@time-> cd /usr/src/usr.bin/ftp 
root@time-> grep FTP_PASSIVE_MODE *
main.c: if (getenv("FTP_PASSIVE_MODE") || strcmp(cp, "pftp") == 0)

Is documented by fetch:

root@time-> cd /usr/src/usr.bin/fetch 
root@time-> grep FTP_PASSIVE_MODE *
fetch.1:.Bl -tag -width FTP_PASSIVE_MODE -offset indent
fetch.1:.It Ev FTP_PASSIVE_MODE

And is implemented for fetch and other utilities in libftpio:

root@time-> cd /usr/src/lib/libftpio 
root@time-> grep FTP_PASSIVE_MODE *
ftpio.c:    if (getenv("FTP_PASSIVE_MODE"))

> as far as i can see, this is far better way to do it than
> bloating the fetch to actually agree with FTP_PASSIVE_MODE.

Fetch is already, through libftpio, supposed to agree with
it.  Unfortunately, I don't have a firewall'd machined handy
to test at the moment but it's certainly worked in the past
when I did.

					Jordan