fetch hangs, part 2
Matt White
matt+list.sw.freebsd.current at publicly.neglect.us
Wed Jul 21 13:10:15 PDT 2004
I don't think so in this case since I was using this same netscreen with a
FreeBSD 5.1 box without incident. I'm actually suspicious of the cabling
at the moment, but I have higher priorities than to figure that out at the
moment.
-Matt
--On Wednesday, July 21, 2004 11:51 AM -0700 Doug White
<dwhite at gumbysoft.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Matt White wrote:
>
>> In my case, I tracked this down to either my netscreen5 or the cable into
>> it going south. It's a bit strange because other software wasn't having
>> an issue, so I'll probably look at this more in the next few days. But
>> for now, removing that box from my network has made fetch happy again,
>> which in turn has made me happy again.
>
> It might have been breaking passive-mode FTP. I've noticed this problem
> coming from certain places. Thankfully not from my workplace or home :)
>
> Some older inspective firewalls don't understand passive mode and drop the
> connection.
>
> --
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