>Number:         10897
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       ftp doesn't play nice with some servers
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Aug 26 07:19:00 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jim Bernard
>Release:        Aug. 12, 2000
>Organization:
	Speaking for myself
>Environment:
System: NetBSD zoo 1.5E NetBSD 1.5E (ZOO-$Revision: 1.55 $) #0: Sat Aug 12 14:34:20 MDT 2000 jim@zoo:/home/tmp/compile/sys/arch/i386/compile/ZOO i386


>Description:
	If I connect to ftp.netscape.com with the default configuration
	(no startup flags except -i) and try to do a directory listing
	(dir or ls), the connection is dropped.  Initially, there's a
	message about EPSV not being understood (which seems to happen
	with most servers), but evidently the fallback to active mode
	is not working in this case.  If I force active mode on the
	command line (-A), then I can get a directory listing.  It seems
	like the default behavior should be less prone to failure, whatever
	it takes to accomplish that.

>How-To-Repeat:
	ftp -i ftp.netscape.com
	dir

>Fix:
	Unknown.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: