Bug 21539

Summary: Installing ports from the Internet through a firewall, handbook 4.2.1.2
Product: Documentation Reporter: drj <drj>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description drj 2000-09-25 16:40:01 UTC 
Section 4.2.1.2 of the handbook <URL http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ports-using.html > does not mention that things can go wrong if you have a firewall installed.  Some firewalls (such as ours) prevent normal ftp from working.  You get error messages like:

Fix: 

You can solve this by specifying pftp (passive ftp) as the fetch command.  On the command line:

FETCH_CMD=pftp make

or editing /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
Comment 1 dannyboy 2000-09-29 03:04:24 UTC 
If I'm not mistaken passive mode has been the default since 4.0-RELEASE.

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Daniel Harris
Comment 2 dannyboy freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-09-29 03:17:43 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Using out-of-box settings a user of the current -STABLE technology 
shouldn't run into this.  Mail to the originator bounced with 550 User unknown.