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----- Original Message -----
From: "Johansson, Anders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 3:32 PM
Subject: [Cooker-firewall] Passive mode and update problem related ?
> Hi everybody.
> Finally got around the release and I have now started to play around with it
> a bit. So far I have had some problems but I have managed to work around
> them, is there any current errata or bugtracking for SNF ?
>
> Anyway here goes nothing:
>
> I have the same problem with empty lists in the update so I thought that I
> would just get the packages manually from one of the servers. But then I
> encountered the blocking ftp problem. It was blocking both trough the
> firewall and also when I was trying to ftp from the firewall itself. So I
> switched ftp to passive mode and I got the directory listings from the
> server.
>
> That's when it hit me, mayby this is the problem with the update function,
> maybe it is hanging while waiting for resonse since it is not using passive
> mode ? Well that's just a thought....
>
> By the way, can I configure SNF so that the ftp-clients don't have to use
> passive mode or is this a bad thing ?
>
> /Anders
>
