acessing ports from behind firewall

[August Simonelli]

Hi all,

I'm trying to access the ports collection from my FreeBSD 4.9 server
running behind my firewall (Astaro, www.astaro.org). Whenever I run the
make install command (or even just try to fetch for ftp) it just times
out. A netstat -an shows:

192.168.1.2.1074       208.209.50.18.21       SYN_SENT

which means I know am i getting name resolution and to the server, but ...

Is this a problem with passive ftp? does anybody have any suggestions on
how to get around this behind a masq'ing firewall that uses NAT? I tried
opening all access to the server thru the firewall but it still fails.

Any thoughts? i'm new to all this so be nice! :-)

Thanks,

August