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On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 10:33 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Bob Perry <rperry@gti.net> writes:
> 
> > Recently set up a firewall using ipf and apparently ran into a problem
> > with FTP sites.  Received error, "No route to host" while fetching files
> > located on ftp sites during portupgrade and also was unable to open the
> > FreeBSD FTP Server (550 Could not accept passive data connection-timed
> > out.)  Had no problem once I disabled the firewall.
> > 
> > I noticed there was a test utility called ipftest available but the man
> > page didn't help me understand how it functions.  Has anyone utilized
> > this utility?  Is there a site that is more informative than the man
> > page?
> > 
> > In the mean time, I do remember scanning an article on active FTP vs
> > passive FTP which may be a good "next step" given the browser error
> > message 550.
> 
> The ipf section in the Handbook has a whole subsection on dealing with FTP.

Read a lot today and when I went back to the handbook, everything seemed
to fall into place.   Not sure I understand it all yet, but...

Thanks,
Bob