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Subject: Re: FTP with firewall rules
From: Nate Williams (nateyogotech.com)
Date: Sat Apr 01 2000 - 13:10:43 CST

> > > Passive mode makes things like building ports difficult.
> >
> > Why? I've got it setup that way (been that way for a couple of years),
> > and things work fine. However, I do things a bit 'non-standard', and go
> > hack the sources to both ftp and fetch to make passive mode the
> > default on my boxes. :)
>
> You need only set the environment variable FTP_PASSIVE_MODE these days
> to get this behaviour.

Like I said, rather than mess with the environment, I just make it the
default. Too often the users don't have it set, so by making it the
default everything 'Just Works'.

Nate

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