The ftp server on galaxy.astron.com apparently refuses any connections
destined to the port shown in the response of PASV command, by unknown
reason (configuration error, or something).

Upon failure on passive mode, current ftp automatically falls back to active
mode.  It looks like your NAT reject active mode ftp and reply 500 error.

Atsushi Onoe

> 	I've been having some problems getting ftp to work correctly
> with all ftp sites.  It works just fine when I try to get stuff from
> ftp.netbsd.org, but if I go someplace else, for example galaxy.astron.com,
> it spits back a "500 Illegal PORT command rejected" error.
> 	I am trying to connect from a computer that is behind a firewall+NAT
> and ftp is using passive mode.  Just before the #500 error I get a message
> #227 saying that it is entering passive mode.  I'm using ftp from -current
> as of a few days ago.
> 
> 	Any ideas?
> 
> eric
>