From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 18 18:42:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monochrome.org (monochrome.org [206.64.112.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB6E637B423 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 18:42:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (faro [192.168.1.7]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA52699; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:42:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:42:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill X-Sender: chris@localhost To: Tony Fleisher 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 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