From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Apr 12 15:15:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA16195 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 15:15:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA16172 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 15:15:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA10686 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 00:15:29 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA05898 for ports@freebsd.org; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 00:15:28 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id AAA12696 for ports@freebsd.org; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 00:14:17 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604122214.AAA12696@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: How to avoid passive mode ftp? To: ports@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 00:14:16 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sitting behind slow link, and not caring for icky firewalls, is there any way to avoid ncftp's passive mode when building a port? It takes a huge amount of time until the connection is initially established. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)