On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Bruce A. Burdick, Jr. wrote:
This is what seems to work (for a fink-installed wget -- others would
likely use /usr/bin/wget). From inside the cpan shell:
o conf wget /sw/bin/wget --passive-ftp
I also had to disable ftp, ncftp, and lynx:
o conf ftp
I'm having no luck installing Bundle::libnet under the CPAN shell. I can't
get any of the initial downloads to work.
I'm running Perl 5.6.0 on MacOS X 10.1.2 on a 400 MHz PowerBook G3 on a DSL
connection behind an OpenBSD/ipf firewall. Under the Proxies tab in Network
Preferences I have 'Use
A little more research since my previous post reveals that it's likely that
I need to use PASV for all FTP connections (my firewall rejects port 113
ident taps). How do I use the CPAN shell to instruct the download tools
(ftp, ncftp, wget, lynx, etc.) to use passive mode for FTP connections?
If
This is what seems to work (for a fink-installed wget -- others would likely
use /usr/bin/wget). From inside the cpan shell:
o conf wget /sw/bin/wget --passive-ftp
I also had to disable ftp, ncftp, and lynx:
o conf ftp
o conf ncftp
o conf lynx
One problem: these settings
