Subject: Re: ftp passive mode
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 04/09/1999 14:49:51
Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> writes:
> On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Ken Hornstein wrote:
>
> : I have to agree with Luke; returning a positive error code from PASV
> : is mega-bozo and I don't think it should be worked around.
> :
> : But I don't think this happens _that_ often.
>
> Try downloading from nntpcache.org. Or kiarchive.ru (though it's supposed
> to be fixed now). Maybe we just connect to different sites.
oops. I run nntpcache.org. This is presumably because of ipfilter in
stateful mode on the nntpcache.org machine not handling pasv inbound
ftp's. Darren, if you are there, is there anything I can do about
that?
Julian.