From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 20 18:00:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81CB716A403 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:00:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFF5043D66 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:00:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend3.internal (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C0DDDA8342 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:00:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.internal ([10.202.2.160]) by frontend3.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:00:17 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: /VRAUMPBSzi+6G0TPlU6Wi6btmOL6GlVbUDKiOWO5Ye/ 1158775215 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC25515A66 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:00:15 -0400 (EDT) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:00:04 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <451176C6.4050706@gregs-garage.com> In-Reply-To: <451176C6.4050706@gregs-garage.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609201900.06499.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: portmanager ftp question. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:00:23 -0000 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.