Re: command line ftp behind firewall
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> I was finally able to get netscape to work on my linux
> box behind the corporate firewall by setting the
> manual proxy to 10.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 for http and ftp (I
> actually gave the REAL address). I could not just
> give the URL address as the machine still doesn't seem
> to co-exist with the windows network nameserver even
> though the hard addresses of the name servers were
> entered into /etc/resolv.conf
Ok
>
> Now how do I configure command line ftp to access via
> the firewall's port 80 as I have just done for
> Netscape-naviagator? (Once I can do that I can
> finally use apt-get directly on this machine, instead
> of downloading the packages one by one).
First off, ftp isn't on port 80; it's on port 21. If the firewall doesn't
allow port 21 through, I'm afraid you're stuck.
If it does, then you need to set the ftp client to passive mode. ncftp
does this by default, as does Netscape.
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