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Subject: Installing ports from the Internet through a firewall, handbook 4.2.1.2
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>Number:         21539
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Installing ports from the Internet through a firewall, handbook 4.2.1.2
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Sep 25 08:40:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:    Thu Sep 28 19:17:43 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Thu Sep 28 19:19:27 PDT 2000
>Originator:     David Jones
>Release:        3.3-RELEASE though I doubt it matters
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
Section 4.2.1.2 of the handbook <URL http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ports-using.html > does not mention that things can go wrong if you have a firewall installed.  Some firewalls (such as ours) prevent normal ftp from working.  You get error messages like:

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
You can solve this by specifying pftp (passive ftp) as the fetch command.  On the command line:

FETCH_CMD=pftp make

or editing /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Daniel Harris <dannyboy@subdimension.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, drj@zoonami.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: docs/21539: Installing ports from the Internet through a firewall, handbook 4.2.1.2
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:04:24 -0400

 If I'm not mistaken passive mode has been the default since 4.0-RELEASE.
 
 --
 Daniel Harris
 
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed  
State-Changed-By: dannyboy 
State-Changed-When: Thu Sep 28 19:17:43 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Using out-of-box settings a user of the current -STABLE technology 
shouldn't run into this.  Mail to the originator bounced with 550 User unknown.  

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=21539 
>Unformatted:
 >> tcsh-6.09.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system.
 >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/tcsh/.
 Connected to galaxy.astron.com.
 [stuff]
 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
 Remote system type is UNIX.
 Using binary mode to transfer files.
 200 Type set to I.
 250 CWD command successful.
 [stuff]
 200 PORT command successful.
 425 Can't build data connection: Operation timed out.
 
 
 
