Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:42:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Tony Fleisher <takhus@takhus.mind.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Weirdness with ports & ftp/fetch Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000918213937.6664F-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009181749030.60319-100000@takhus-home.ashlandfn.org>
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On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Tony Fleisher wrote: > 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? Not deliberately; in fact, I never set it. Maybe someone or something did this for me. > On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Chris Hill wrote: > -- CUT UNNEEDED TEXT -- > > > I'm experiencing an odd problem with ftp and fetch, ... It seems > > that I can't ftp outside my home net... > > However, I can download via Netscape with no trouble... -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org [1] Bus error netscape To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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