mirror

[Kenny Wickstrom <kenny@kennet.com>]

Hi,

I am behind a firewall and wanting to use mirror to get a local copy of 
debian.  I have set mirror up with passive_ftp=1, but it still does not 
work.  I have traced the problem through the code and found that the 
error occurs in a routine called open_newport in lchat.pl as the 2nd port 
is being opened.  I think the error is 'bad file number' if I understand 
that $! in perl gives the errno.  I do not really know perl or socket 
programing, so I am at a loss.

Is anyone else using mirror from behind a firewall without SOCKS?  Does 
anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,

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