On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
It sounds like you have a new firewall (intentionally or not) in the form of your cable "modem." Why do you have the portrange set low? The fact that you apparently have similar problems under other operating systems may indicate that FreeBSD can't actually solve this for you. If your cable modem is doing firewalling (or, even more insidious, NAT) without your knowledge, then you will need to understand just how it is configured before you can make any progress at all.
-- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
Thanks for the reply! I set the port range low because i was following an ipfw tutorial when i set it up. I probably should change that :)
Other operating systems work fine actually. I found the problem last night. I had changed the /etc/services file a few months ago to try to get a friend to connect to the ftp server because he was behind a weird firewall. I forgot about it. So by default fetch and ftp (cli) would use port 9000 instead of port 21. I feel a bit stupid on this one! I didn't realize that fetch and ftp used the value from /etc/services. After fixing that I was able to update some ports.
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