Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

[Nick Hibma]

On 28 May 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

 > "Jan B. Koum " <j...@best.com> writes:
 > >    Yay! This is awesome. I guess in addition to ftp, the tools and
 > > libraries you talk about would also include fetch, and other firewall
 > > not so friendly things? (Would be nice if CVSup can fake FTP_PASSIVE_MODE
 > > by doing '-P -' too).
 > 
 > CVSup uses multiplexed mode by default, which means it multiplexes its
 > various data channels over a single TCP connection. The server does
 > not (should not) attempt to connect back to the client.

No.

$ /usr/local/bin/cvsup /usr/src-supfile -g -L 2 
...
Establishing active-mode data connection
Timed out waiting for connection from server.  Check your firewall setup
or try the "-P m" option

And it never gets there (firewall is 3 hops down the road).
'-P m' does change the behaviour.

Nick



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