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Date:      Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:39:05 +0000
From:      RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp
Message-ID:  <20070319143905.7c69cc41@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <0EE4A357-FB1C-410D-BDF2-AF3A8BC7736B@goldmark.org>
References:  <0EE4A357-FB1C-410D-BDF2-AF3A8BC7736B@goldmark.org>

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On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:04:16 -0500
Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> wrote:

> On my perimeter firewall, I default deny outbound traffic.  This
> cuts off fetching using active FTP.  Is there some way that I can
> tell portupgrade to pass the -p flag to fetch?

This doesn't make any sense unless you meant to say deny *in*bound
traffic.

If you really are denying outbound TCP, you need to configure an
FTP proxy, and configure fetch to use whatever that supports. This may
mean switching fetch from passive (the default) to active ftp.



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