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Subject: Re: pkg_add blocked by IPFirewall
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At 09:40 PM 12/12/2005, Jose Borquez wrote:
>I am attempting to install cvsup using pkg_add -r but I keep getting 
>the following error:
>
>Error: FTP Unable to get 
>ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/Latest/cvsup-without-gui.tbz: 
>No route to host
>pkg_add: unable to fetch 
>'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/Latest/cvsup-without-gui.tbz' 
>by URL
>
>I know that it is being blocked by my firewall.  What are the tcp 
>and udp ports that I need to open up for pkg_add to get the package?

The control connection for ftp is tcp on port 21.  As long as you 
have FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES in your environment, that's all you should need.

However, the message "no route to host" suggests you have a routing problem.

-Glenn


>Thank you in advance.
>Jose
>
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