From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 21 20:44:18 2005 Return-Path: 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 5E15616A4CE for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:44:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.foolishgames.com (mail.foolishgames.com [216.55.178.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2774943D41 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:44:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from laffer1@mail.foolishgames.com) Received: from mail.foolishgames.com (localhost.dedicated.abac.net [127.0.0.1])j0LLlaBb056364 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:47:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from laffer1@mail.foolishgames.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.foolishgames.com: Host localhost.dedicated.abac.net [127.0.0.1] claimed to be mail.foolishgames.com Received: from localhost (laffer1@localhost)j0LLlaVi056361; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:47:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from laffer1@mail.foolishgames.com) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:47:36 -0800 (PST) From: laffer1 To: Lowell Gilbert In-Reply-To: <441xcesr0t.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Message-ID: <20050121134309.N56273@mail.foolishgames.com> References: <441xcesr0t.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: Lucas Holt cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: ftp/fetch can not connect to ftp sites. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:44:18 -0000 On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > It sounds like you have a new firewall (intentionally or not) in the > form of your cable "modem." Why do you have the portrange set low? > The fact that you apparently have similar problems under other > operating systems may indicate that FreeBSD can't actually solve this > for you. If your cable modem is doing firewalling (or, even more > insidious, NAT) without your knowledge, then you will need to > understand just how it is configured before you can make any progress > at all. > > -- > Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area > http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ > Thanks for the reply! I set the port range low because i was following an ipfw tutorial when i set it up. I probably should change that :) Other operating systems work fine actually. I found the problem last night. I had changed the /etc/services file a few months ago to try to get a friend to connect to the ftp server because he was behind a weird firewall. I forgot about it. So by default fetch and ftp (cli) would use port 9000 instead of port 21. I feel a bit stupid on this one! I didn't realize that fetch and ftp used the value from /etc/services. After fixing that I was able to update some ports. Luke