Message from Jens B. Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Sam Ockman wrote: > > > > At work I sit behind a firewall. The firewall lets me out for whatever I > > want, but for some reason, there is a conflict with the wu-ftpd > > distributed with Debian and my firewall. Wu-ftpd sits there for several > > minutes before it times out and actually connects...it seems like I can't > > connect at all to master.debian.org from behind the firewall, although > > maybe it just takes a few minutes more. > > > > It occurs to me that maybe wu-ftpd is waiting for my name to be sent, > > because it knows my name when I go there and am not behind a > > firewall....who feeds this info to it if I don't have identd running? Is > > that my client? Is this not the problem? > > > > How can I get wu-ftpd to give me a quicker response? > > > > I'm convinced that this is a Debian/wu-ftpd problem... > > > > I can get into ftp.debian.org fine from my firewall, as well as > > ftp.redhat.com, and all other ftp sites I've ever tried...but the two > > Debian machines at home take several minutes to let me in, and > > master.debian.org won't let me in at all, or maybe I just haven't waited > > long enough for it to timeout. > > > > Thanks, > > Sam > > > > Perhaps you can turn off ident checking in wu-ftpd. ident can't really > go "through" the firewall back to you. If your firewall is SOCKS, > SOCKS can supply ident service. Unfortunately you have to stop regular > ident service for this to work--I wish there was a better way.
Okay, I'd love to do this....but how? I read all the documentation and couldn't find anything.... -Sam -- VA Research Linux Workstations Engineered like no other http://www.varesearch.com Sam Ockman - (415)934-3666, ext. 133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
