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#! rnews 1447 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.lava.net!news-w.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!philabs!blanket.mitre.org!news.mathworks.com!EU.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!zdc-e!super.zippo.com!szdc!newsp.zippo.com!snews2 From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Does ftp.freebsd.com support passive FTP? Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 16:52:38 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3384C026.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> References: <mvhEAL3rr.Fqv@netcom.com> <EALAq0.no@sphynx.fdn.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41521 Philippe Causse wrote: > > Michael Harding (mvh@netcom.com) wrote: > : If not, why not? :) I just installed a firewall and I can't download > : software to it via ncftp2. > > Ftp daemon and client _do_ support passive mode. > Remember, ftpd & ftp are basically BSD programs ! > > : Just asking, but it seems weird to poke a hole in the firewall to get security upgrades. :) > > Either you should start hacking arround in ncftp2, either you should go for > the bulk ftp program. > Looking at the subject line, you may have expressed some kind of Freudian slip :-). It is ftp.freebsd.org. John