cube@cubidou.net wrote:

> The firewall, as it probably doesn't understand EPSV and doesn't take
> the necessary actions as it would for a PASV command.
> 
>>Can I somehow ask fetch to not ask for EPSV ?

> 
> Add 'epsv4' to your .netrc file.

Perhaps I am not doing this correctly
I created a file ".netrc"
It contains one line...

epsv4

I placed this file in roots home directory
and then tried a "make fetch-list | sh" as
user "root"

EPSV is still used by default first....