Don't forget that there are a lot of firewalls (ANS Interlock in
particular) out there that require logging in first. Passive mode won't
work. That is, you ftp to the firewall, log in, and finally do a
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That gives you a connection to the remote site which then prompts for
the password.
Yick.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rev. Joseph Carter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 12:52 AM
> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: netstd tools in the base system (was Re: What to do
> with /bin/perl symlink?)
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 07:00:48PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > What if the person does not want to use dselect? Many people (not
> me) prefer
> > > to download packages themselves, and dpkg -i them. Now that ftp
> is removed,
> > > they would either have to download netstd using something other
> than linux, or
> > > use dselect to download netstd. Given some people's dislike of
> dselect, this
> > > will be a major complaint.
> >
> > Some people can't use dselect's ftp method, firewalls and so on.
>
> Unless the firewall doesn't allow ANY ftp at all, the ftp method
> supports
> passive mode.
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