Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:00:04 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmanager ftp question. Message-ID: <200609201900.06499.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <451176C6.4050706@gregs-garage.com> References: <451176C6.4050706@gregs-garage.com>
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On Wednesday 20 September 2006 18:13, Greg Groth wrote: > Here's the situation, I have 3 BSD servers sitting behind a pfsense > firewall. When I run portmanager on any of the 3 servers, inevitably it > runs into a distfile that can't be downloaded from an FTP site. > Although I haven't checked the log files on the firewall, I'm fairly > positive this is an active / passive issue. My workaround right now is > to download the required distfile to a machine on the LAN (sitting > behind the pfsense firewall), and SCP it to the server, and restart > portmanager. I've played around with the FTP helper settings on > pfsense, to no avail. Is there a way to globally set active or passive > FTP connections on the servers so portmanager will work correctly? I'll > occasionally run into the same issue when building a new port as well. > I'm not sure what app the machine is using to download the distfiles, > wget? If this is the case, my question would be is there a way to set a > configuration for wget to use either active or passive ftp connections > all the time, no matter which process is calling it? What does "make -V FETCH_CMD" say? The default is "fetch -ApRr" where -p means passive.
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