Re: Problem with wu-ftpd....
Message from Jens B. Jorgensen (jjorgens@bdsinc.com):
> Sam Ockman wrote:
> >
> > At work I sit behind a firewall. The firewall lets me out for whatever I
> > want, but for some reason, there is a conflict with the wu-ftpd
> > distributed with Debian and my firewall. Wu-ftpd sits there for several
> > minutes before it times out and actually connects...it seems like I can't
> > connect at all to master.debian.org from behind the firewall, although
> > maybe it just takes a few minutes more.
> >
> > It occurs to me that maybe wu-ftpd is waiting for my name to be sent,
> > because it knows my name when I go there and am not behind a
> > firewall....who feeds this info to it if I don't have identd running? Is
> > that my client? Is this not the problem?
> >
> > How can I get wu-ftpd to give me a quicker response?
> >
> > I'm convinced that this is a Debian/wu-ftpd problem...
> >
> > I can get into ftp.debian.org fine from my firewall, as well as
> > ftp.redhat.com, and all other ftp sites I've ever tried...but the two
> > Debian machines at home take several minutes to let me in, and
> > master.debian.org won't let me in at all, or maybe I just haven't waited
> > long enough for it to timeout.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sam
> >
>
> Perhaps you can turn off ident checking in wu-ftpd. ident can't really
> go "through" the firewall back to you. If your firewall is SOCKS,
> SOCKS can supply ident service. Unfortunately you have to stop regular
> ident service for this to work--I wish there was a better way.
Okay, I'd love to do this....but how? I read all the documentation and
couldn't find anything....
-Sam
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