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From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Does ftp.freebsd.com support passive FTP?
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 16:52:38 -0500
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Philippe Causse wrote:
> 
> Michael Harding (mvh@netcom.com) wrote:
> : If not, why not? :) I just installed a firewall and I can't download
> : software to it via ncftp2.
> 
> Ftp daemon and client _do_ support passive mode.
> Remember, ftpd & ftp are basically BSD programs !
> 
> : Just asking, but it seems weird to poke a hole in the firewall to get security upgrades. :)
> 
> Either you should start hacking arround in ncftp2, either you should go for
> the bulk ftp program.
> 
Looking at the subject line, you may have expressed some kind of
Freudian
slip :-).  It is ftp.freebsd.org.

John