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Date:      Mon, 18 Sep 2000 17:52:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tony Fleisher <takhus@takhus.mind.net>
To:        Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Weirdness with ports & ftp/fetch
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009181749030.60319-100000@takhus-home.ashlandfn.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000918195615.6664D-100000@localhost>

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I believe that the problem here is that you are behind a firewall and need
to be using PASSIVE FTP (netscape uses passive mode, which is why it
works).

Did you recently unset FTP_PASSIVE_MODE in your environment?

Hope this helps,

TOny.
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On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Chris Hill wrote:
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> I'm experiencing an odd problem with ftp and fetch, specifically when I
> try to build a port. It seems that I can't ftp outside my home net. FTP
> worked earlier and I don't think I've changed anything that would affect
> it. I did install apache yesterday, but it's not running right now
> (that's apache 1.3.12, built manually, in case it matters).  Here's an
> example of the kind of thing I'm seeing: 
> 
> However, I can download via Netscape with no trouble (using ftp://
> URLs); and I can ftp within my internal (RFC1918) network with no
> trouble. 
> 



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