Re: dftp out through a firewall
On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Frere Roy wrote:
> On our site a new firewall has been installed and now inorder to ftp it
> is necessary to do the following
>
> root@s1:~# ftp 194.248.7.3
> Connected to 194.248.7.3.
> 220 WinProxy FTP Gateway ready, enter username@host[:port]
> Name (194.248.7.3:root):
>
> Then I can type my 'anonymous@ftp.debian.org'
>
> I cannot figure out how to overcome this hurdle when I use dftp as it
> is not expecting a Proxy promt.
>
> Any ideas?
If you are using dpkg-ftp (from dselect) then do
export FTP_FIREWALL=194.248.7.3
That will fix any perl using ftp program actually.
Jason
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