Firewall and FreeBSD ports

[John Almberg]

>>>>>
>>>>> sh/bash: export FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=true
>>>>>     csh: setenv FTP_PASSIVE_MODE true
>>
>> First off, this did solve the problem. Thank you, Jeremy.
>>
>> Now, as to the why...
>
> That's odd, because if you are running  7.x with a default settings,
> FTP_PASSIVE_MODE should be irrelevant to fetching distfiles - even if
> it's set to "no".
>
> Do you have any FETCH_* variables defined?

No

> What happens if you cd to a
> port directory and type: make -V FETCH_CMD ?

[admin at dbs:~]> cd /usr/ports/shells/zsh
'[admin at dbs:zsh]> make -V FETCH_CMD
/usr/bin/fetch -ApRr
[admin at dbs:zsh]>

>> I then wanted to install NTP:
>>
>> cd /usr/ports/net/ntp
>> make config; make install clean
>>
>> This failed because the mirrors were not accessible.
>
> I just tried this port myself and it failed on all four servers
> configured in the Makefile, only succeeding on the fallback Freebsd
> server, (Freebsd's own cache for package building).
>
> Unless you turn-up something odd for FETCH_CMD, I think there's
> a good chance that you never had an FTP firewall problem in the first
> place, and that the file has simply been added to ftp.freebsd.org  
> since
> you got the original failure.

I just removed the FTP_PASSIVE_MODE variable from .bash_profile,  
logged out, and logged back in. I then tried to install another port  
and it installed without problem.

-- John