Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:50:36 -0400 From: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firewall and FreeBSD ports Message-ID: <DFCAFD1B-C8AB-437D-9D9E-59A493FDEF6F@identry.com> In-Reply-To: <20081011013647.424ee485@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <FC9CDE39-C162-45F6-9895-1202144AF927@identry.com> <E8801B03-A3A5-4F86-B66E-2F8894CE2D01@identry.com> <20081011013647.424ee485@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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>>>>> >>>>> sh/bash: export FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=true >>>>> csh: setenv FTP_PASSIVE_MODE true >> >> First off, this did solve the problem. Thank you, Jeremy. >> >> Now, as to the why... > > That's odd, because if you are running 7.x with a default settings, > FTP_PASSIVE_MODE should be irrelevant to fetching distfiles - even if > it's set to "no". > > Do you have any FETCH_* variables defined? No > What happens if you cd to a > port directory and type: make -V FETCH_CMD ? [admin@dbs:~]> cd /usr/ports/shells/zsh '[admin@dbs:zsh]> make -V FETCH_CMD /usr/bin/fetch -ApRr [admin@dbs:zsh]> >> I then wanted to install NTP: >> >> cd /usr/ports/net/ntp >> make config; make install clean >> >> This failed because the mirrors were not accessible. > > I just tried this port myself and it failed on all four servers > configured in the Makefile, only succeeding on the fallback Freebsd > server, (Freebsd's own cache for package building). > > Unless you turn-up something odd for FETCH_CMD, I think there's > a good chance that you never had an FTP firewall problem in the first > place, and that the file has simply been added to ftp.freebsd.org > since > you got the original failure. I just removed the FTP_PASSIVE_MODE variable from .bash_profile, logged out, and logged back in. I then tried to install another port and it installed without problem. -- John
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