Alexander Hansen writes: > One piece of advice that came up recently was to check on the > Proxies tab of System Preferences->Network and verify that the > Use Passive Mode FTP box is checked.
Yes, it is. I also am running the OSX software firewall under the 'Sharing' tab. However, I tried turning the latter off, and that didn't help (although, oddly enough, it did help me when using /usr/bin/ftp to poke around ftp.sunet.se from the command line). I'm truly mystified. Anyone else have any tips or suggestions? V. > On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 11:41, Viktor Haag wrote: > > In the past few days, I've noticed some odd troubles with > > updating using 'fink' (i.e. fink selfupdate, fink update-all, > > fink install). > > > > curl seems to be having no luck getting source packages through > > ftp. > > > > In most cases, I get errors like "curl: (13) Odd return code > > after PASV" or "curl: (11) Odd return code after PASS". > > > > Other times, curl just seems to hang when attempting to download > > from a site. > > > > I then try to contact the various mirrors directly with ncftp to > > see if I can get more feedback. > > > > I can connect fine to ftp sites, but when I attempt to do an > > 'ls', I get an error that says "Passive mode refused". > > > > If I attempt to get a file that I assume should be there (like > > the tarball that fink was looking for in the first place), it > > borks with an error like "server said: data connection > > establishment failed". > > > > Can someone please assist me in figuring out what's going on > > here? Up until very recently I was having no problems at all > > using passive FTP to get fink updates through our corporate > > firewall. > > > > All the feedback here seems to indicate that the problem is at > > the FTP server end, but I have a hard time believing that. > > > > Can someone give me some advice on how to debug this problem? > > > > Is the problem with my local firewall? If so, how do I gather > > more information about what's going on so I can go and politely > > ask our IT people to fix what they've changed? > -- > Alexander K. Hansen > Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University > visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center > Levitated Dipole Experiment > 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 > Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
