Todd Whitesel writes:
> > My point was that there's a lot of software out there that doesn't do
> > passive, and you can't always control what is run on a network. Life is
> > much better if everything written according to specifications "just works".
> 
> Strongly agree... In particular I wish our FTP was smart enough to disable
> epsv4 when it gets the first '500 EPASV not understood' or whatever that
> generic error message is...

ftp is smart enough to do that!  I fixed that on October 1, 1999.

Please update your sources before complaining about a bug or missing
feature in ftp; chances are it may have already been resolved. ;-)