Re: cdrtools-2.01a28 ready

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Joerg Schilling wrote:

> > From wooledg@eeg.ccf.org  Wed Apr 21 14:19:44 2004
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> > On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 09:24:01AM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
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> > > > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha ...
> > > >        
> > > Am I the only one having problems to access this site?
> > > I get "421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection"
> > > most of the time.
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> > Any time I attempt to reach it through a web browser, using squid as
> > a proxy, I can't do it.  Apparently it doesn't like squid's anonymous
> > logins, or default password, or something.  But then it works fine if
> > I use a "normal" FTP client.  In fact, it's working right now.
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> Many people have problems because their sysadmin did set up a broken
> firewall. Doing FTP correctly is not trivial.....
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Agreed, although the iptables in Linux 2.4 does a quite good job. 
However, for people who are using real ftp instead of ftp from some 
browser, if you set the passive (command PASS) mode so you use the same 
socket for data and commands, many firewalls will behave better.

Haven't had a problem on Joerg's site, so I can't say I've tried that, I 
just click his link like everyone else ;-)

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
 CTO TMR Associates, Inc
 Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979