Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:47:36 -0800 (PST) From: laffer1 <laffer1@mail.foolishgames.com> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ftp/fetch can not connect to ftp sites. Message-ID: <20050121134309.N56273@mail.foolishgames.com> In-Reply-To: <441xcesr0t.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <E6C5DB4A-6A94-11D9-9FF7-000A95EFF4CA@foolishgames.com> <441xcesr0t.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > It sounds like you have a new firewall (intentionally or not) in the > form of your cable "modem." Why do you have the portrange set low? > The fact that you apparently have similar problems under other > operating systems may indicate that FreeBSD can't actually solve this > for you. If your cable modem is doing firewalling (or, even more > insidious, NAT) without your knowledge, then you will need to > understand just how it is configured before you can make any progress > at all. > > -- > Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area > http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ > Thanks for the reply! I set the port range low because i was following an ipfw tutorial when i set it up. I probably should change that :) Other operating systems work fine actually. I found the problem last night. I had changed the /etc/services file a few months ago to try to get a friend to connect to the ftp server because he was behind a weird firewall. I forgot about it. So by default fetch and ftp (cli) would use port 9000 instead of port 21. I feel a bit stupid on this one! I didn't realize that fetch and ftp used the value from /etc/services. After fixing that I was able to update some ports. Luke
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