From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Mar 22 18:30:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail-blue.research.att.com (mail-blue.research.att.com [135.207.30.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F2CB37B71B for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:30:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fenner@research.att.com) Received: from alliance.research.att.com (alliance.research.att.com [135.207.26.26]) by mail-blue.research.att.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F6FC4CE1F for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 21:30:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from windsor.research.att.com (windsor.research.att.com [135.207.26.46]) by alliance.research.att.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA06550 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 21:30:30 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fenner Received: (from fenner@localhost) by windsor.research.att.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.5) id UAA15312; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:30:30 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200103230230.UAA15312@windsor.research.att.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Port survey can no longer talk to PASV-incapable ftp servers Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:30:30 -0600 Versions: dmail (solaris) 2.2g/makemail 2.9a Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org An FYI to you port maintainers out there: Due to firewall changes at freebsd.org, the port distfile survey can no longer talk to FTP servers that can't handle PASV mode (e.g. those behind a firewall of their own). This will show up as errors like "425 Can't open data connection." I'm not really sure what to do about this. On one hand, it's usually still possible to fetch the file using an active FTP connection. On the other hand, increasingly many clients are behind firewalls which require passive connections, so servers that can't do passive mode might as well be considered unusable. Anyone have any opinions? Thanks, Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message