From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 4 8:21: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.cybersites.com (ns1.cybersites.com [208.178.45.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E2AB15166 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 08:21:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cyouse@cybersites.com) Received: from f8m7n1 (dhcp17.int.cybersites.com [10.0.4.17]) by ns1.cybersites.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA12971 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:20:18 -0400 Message-ID: <002c01bede8c$4e9dba60$1104000a@f8m7n1> From: "Chuck Youse" To: Subject: fetch: default to passive mode? Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:16:20 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a really strong urge to submit a PR to make fetch default to passive mode, instead of requiring a command-line switch ... In this day and age, with firewalls and NAT abound, it's a bit odd that such a change has not already been made. Am I missing something? Is there a reason we haven't done this yet? Chuck Youse Director of Engineering CyberSites, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message