Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 08:45:09 -0400 From: "Anthony Abby" <anthonyabby@mail.aplusdata.com> To: <twuug@twuug.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Passive FTP not working on FreeBSD 4.6.2 (Ports) Message-ID: <200208290845.AA87425230@mail.aplusdata.com>
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Okay, I have played with this over the past several days and I'm all played out. I can not determine why this is happening because I'm just too new to FreeBSD. I have a spare desktop at work that I loaded FreeBSD 4.6.2 on. Everything works great on the system, but I can not use passive ftp on it, even though I can (and do) use passive ftp on a Windows 2000 system sitting right next to it on my desk. Yes, these systems are behind a firewall, but again, it works on my Windows 2000 box. I want to upgrade or install a port on my BSD box, and as is expected, if the package isn't located in the distfiles directory, the system attempts to ftp the file from one of several servers. It always fails and asks me to manually copy the file to that directory. I can ftp into ftp.freebsd.org just fine (or any other ftp site), but if I attempt to do anything in ftp that requires passive connectivity, such as ls, mget, mput, etc, I get a Connection refused error. NcFtp works just fine however! I can do everything that one would normally need to do using ftp through NcFtp, just not FTP... odd. Anyway, this is driving me crazy and look as I might on the system I can not see any reason why this might be happening and I haven't located any "documentation" online explaining this error either. I know it's not an install issue because I loaded FreeBSD up on a spare system at home last night and install Mozilla using ports.... So, can anyone explain to me why I do not have complete ftp functionallity on this system here at work? Any idea of where I might begin to even look to troubleshoot it? Thanks for any help. Anthony To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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