Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 17:52:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Tony Fleisher <takhus@takhus.mind.net> To: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Weirdness with ports & ftp/fetch Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009181749030.60319-100000@takhus-home.ashlandfn.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000918195615.6664D-100000@localhost>
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I believe that the problem here is that you are behind a firewall and need to be using PASSIVE FTP (netscape uses passive mode, which is why it works). Did you recently unset FTP_PASSIVE_MODE in your environment? Hope this helps, TOny. -- On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Chris Hill wrote: -- CUT UNNEEDED TEXT -- > I'm experiencing an odd problem with ftp and fetch, specifically when I > try to build a port. It seems that I can't ftp outside my home net. FTP > worked earlier and I don't think I've changed anything that would affect > it. I did install apache yesterday, but it's not running right now > (that's apache 1.3.12, built manually, in case it matters). Here's an > example of the kind of thing I'm seeing: > > However, I can download via Netscape with no trouble (using ftp:// > URLs); and I can ftp within my internal (RFC1918) network with no > trouble. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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