From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 7 15:18:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.il.home.com (ha1.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25ECD37B5AB for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 15:18:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([24.12.197.197]) by mail.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000607221822.KTQ17840.mail.rdc1.il.home.com@math.missouri.edu> for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 15:18:22 -0700 Message-ID: <393ECA1E.58DF698C@math.missouri.edu> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 17:18:06 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Passive mode for ftp References: <393EB2EC.B4D083A1@math.missouri.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK, it is not passive mode as such that seems to be problem. Suppose I do: ftp ftp.freebsd.org and log on as anonymous. When I type ls I get the messages 500 'EPSV': command not understood. 500 'LPSV': command not understood. Passive mode refused. This worked in earler versions of FreeBSD 4.0, even when I had a firewall. Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > I am operating behind a firewall, which seems to require that ftp > operate in passive mode. With recent builds of FBSD 4.0, ftp does > not seem to want to do this. > > I recall seeing a discussion about this, and people promising > a fix. I am operating a very recent version of FreeBSD (built > yesterday), and it is still not working. > > Has it been fixed yet, or am I misunderstanding something? Is > there something I should be doing? > > Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 Phone 573-882-4540, fax 573-882-1869 http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen stephen@math.missouri.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message