Re: wget and ftp download problems

[Sean Burlington <sean@burlington.me.uk>]

Dave Selby wrote:
> On Sunday 09 February 2003 8:45 am, you wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Dave Selby wrote:
> >
> > > Having a bit of trouble with wget loading from ftp sites, have set it up
> > > to load urls from a text file.

> > Are you sitting behind a firewall at all? Have you allowed both port 20

> Sure am sitting behind a firewall, Its a pretty crude affair, blocks all NEW 
> packets from outside, lets in ESTABLISHED & RELATED.
>
> So should allow a transmit from my machine via any port, and accept any 
> ESTABLISHED, RELATED packet back in.
>
> I have unfortunately got the same problem on all ftp sites I have tried.

ESTABLISHED can match the incoming part of ftp downloads if you

modprobe ip_tables

(some people seem to have trouble with passive downloads)

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Sean