Subject: ftp passive mode
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/25/1999 17:33:03
Hi,
Today I've found an interesting case, looking at why the new nessus distfile
was not uploaded to ftp.netbsd.org: it seems that ftp.nessus.org doesn't
accept passive ftp because of a firewall rule:
227 Entering Passive Mode (199,181,107,23,146,207)
200 PORT command successful.
<some delay here>
425 Can't build data connection: No route to host.

Active mode works fine. If someone wants to look at our ftp client and fix
this case ...

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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