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Date:      Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:42:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
To:        Tony Fleisher <takhus@takhus.mind.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Weirdness with ports & ftp/fetch
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000918213937.6664F-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009181749030.60319-100000@takhus-home.ashlandfn.org>

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On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Tony Fleisher wrote:

> 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?

Not deliberately; in fact, I never set it. Maybe someone or something
did this for me.

> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Chris Hill wrote:
> -- CUT UNNEEDED TEXT --
> 
> > I'm experiencing an odd problem with ftp and fetch, ... It seems
> > that I can't ftp outside my home net...

> > However, I can download via Netscape with no trouble...


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Chris Hill               chris@monochrome.org
[1]    Bus error                     netscape



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