From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 18 17:52:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ego.mind.net (ego.mind.net [206.99.66.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 163C737B423 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 17:52:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from takhus-home.ashlandfn.org (AFN-Dyn-6315110844.pc.ashlandfiber.net [63.151.108.44]) by ego.mind.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA22799; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 17:52:34 -0700 Received: from localhost (fleisher@localhost) by takhus-home.ashlandfn.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8J0qRM60456; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 17:52:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from takhus@takhus.mind.net) X-Authentication-Warning: takhus-home.ashlandfn.org: fleisher owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 17:52:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Tony Fleisher X-Sender: fleisher@takhus-home.ashlandfn.org To: Chris Hill Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Weirdness with ports & ftp/fetch In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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