Sam Ockman wrote: > > 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.... >
I'm not sure which thing you meant. If you mean turn off ident in wu-ftpd, I don't know 'cause I don't use wu-ftpd. If you mean how to turn off ident responses in your firewall machine, it goes like this: There'll be a line in /etc/services like this: auth 113/tcp authentication tap ident You need to comment it out like so: #auth 113/tcp authentication tap ident And either 'kill -HUP' or restart inetd. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
