Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:12:16 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> Cc: Julian Mayer <julianmayer@mac.com>, knu@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: portupgrade-20021216 Message-ID: <20030123101216.GA2856@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20030123081224.GA471@straylight.oblivion.bg> References: <F123A396-2E66-11D7-9D30-00039303B9CC@mac.com> <20030123081224.GA471@straylight.oblivion.bg>
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On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:12:24AM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 01:09:29AM +0100, Julian Mayer wrote:
> > hello
> > there is a bug in portupgrade-20021216: when you change the FTP port in
> > /etc/services to run the FTP demon on another port, portupgrade is
> > unable to download ports/packages via ftp
> > is there a workaround?
>
> Errr.. this is not a bug in portupgrade, but the way most (all?) FTP
> clients work. If you change the port for the 'ftp' service, *any*
> program that asks about the 'ftp' service will use the new port,
> including all FTP clients that try to make outgoing connections.
In that case, it sounds like a bug in our stock ftpd.
DESCRIPTION
Ftpd is the Internet File Transfer Protocol server process. The server
uses the TCP protocol and listens at the port specified in the ``ftp''
service specification; see services(5).
If this breaks outgoing ftp connections, then that's quite serious.
> The appropriate way to "fix" that problem is to NOT change the port for
> the 'ftp' service, but merely specify a different port on which to run
> the FTP server.
RTF ftpd(8) manual - there isn't any other (documented) way to do it.
If I'm not missing something obvious, then I'll file a PR for this later.
Ceri
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