Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:30:30 -0600 From: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Port survey can no longer talk to PASV-incapable ftp servers Message-ID: <200103230230.UAA15312@windsor.research.att.com>
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An FYI to you port maintainers out there: Due to firewall changes at freebsd.org, the port distfile survey can no longer talk to FTP servers that can't handle PASV mode (e.g. those behind a firewall of their own). This will show up as errors like "425 Can't open data connection." I'm not really sure what to do about this. On one hand, it's usually still possible to fetch the file using an active FTP connection. On the other hand, increasingly many clients are behind firewalls which require passive connections, so servers that can't do passive mode might as well be considered unusable. Anyone have any opinions? Thanks, Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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