From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 18 19:11:39 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 225BC37B424 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:11:37 -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 TAA04581; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:11:36 -0700 Received: from localhost (fleisher@localhost) by takhus-home.ashlandfn.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8J2BWw43103; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:11:32 -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 19:11:32 -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 FTP_PASSIVE_MODE is set on my system in /etc/login.conf Perhaps you edited this file and inadvertantely removed this setting, or changed your login class to one that does not include this setting. The first few lines of the default entry: default:\ :copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\ :welcome=/etc/motd:\ :setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES:\ Regards, TOny. On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Chris Hill wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message