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Date:      Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:41:22 -0400
From:      "Adam Crosby" <acrosby@nps.k12.va.us>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, <anthonyabby@mail.aplusdata.com>, <twuug@twuug.org>
Subject:   Re: [twuug] Passive FTP not working on FreeBSD 4.6.2 (Ports)
Message-ID:  <sd6e4eca.017@mail.nps.k12.va.us>

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did you try typing 'PASV' at the ftp command line?
Here's a helpful set of references:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/packages-using.ht=
ml
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html


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Adam Crosby
District Systems Engineer
Norfolk Public Schools
(757) 628-3450
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>>> "Anthony Abby" <anthonyabby@mail.aplusdata.com> 08/29/02 08:45AM >>>
Okay, I have played with this over the past several days and I'm all =
played out.  I can not determine why this is happening because I'm just =
too new to FreeBSD.

I have a spare desktop at work that I loaded FreeBSD 4.6.2 on.  Everything =
works great on the system, but I can not use passive ftp on it, even =
though I can (and do) use passive ftp on a Windows 2000 system sitting =
right next to it on my desk.  Yes, these systems are behind a firewall, =
but again, it works on my Windows 2000 box.

I want to upgrade or install a port on my BSD box, and as is expected, if =
the package isn't located in the distfiles directory, the system attempts =
to ftp the file from one of several servers.  It always fails and asks me =
to manually copy the file to that directory.  I can ftp into ftp.freebsd.or=
g just fine (or any other ftp site), but if I attempt to do anything in =
ftp that requires passive connectivity, such as ls, mget, mput, etc, I get =
a Connection refused error.  NcFtp works just fine however!  I can do =
everything that one would normally need to do using ftp through NcFtp, =
just not FTP... odd.

Anyway, this is driving me crazy and look as I might on the system I can =
not see any reason why this might be happening and I haven't located any =
"documentation" online explaining this error either. I know it's not an =
install issue because I loaded FreeBSD up on a spare system at home last =
night and install Mozilla using ports....=20

So, can anyone explain to me why I do not have complete ftp functionallity =
on this system here at work?  Any idea of where I might begin to even look =
to troubleshoot it?

Thanks for any help.

Anthony


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