On Wednesday, May 16, 2001, at 10:46  pm, Ian Goldby wrote:

> I've had problems accessing files on ftp.netbsd.org from work through a
> firewall. I found Internet Explorer mostly wouldn't do it, but a 
> dedicated
> FTP program might. You probably need passive FTP.

This is likely; Firewalls do not map incoming ports by default. FTP 
usually chooses a random port, passive FTP chooses a pre-defined one. 
Therefore the Firewall was stopping the connection until Passive FTP is 
used which the Firewall can deal with.

All the best.

Matthew