Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:11:32 -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.4.21.0009181909010.65970-100000@takhus-home.ashlandfn.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000918213937.6664F-100000@localhost>
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FTP_PASSIVE_MODE is set on my system in /etc/login.conf
Perhaps you edited this file and inadvertantely removed this setting,
or changed your login class to one that does not include this setting.
The first few lines of the default entry:
default:\
:copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\
:welcome=/etc/motd:\
:setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES:\
Regards,
TOny.
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Chris Hill wrote:
> 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...
>
>
> --
> Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org
> [1] Bus error netscape
>
>
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