Re: wget and ftp download problems

[Jeffrey Taylor <jeff.taylor@ieee.org>]

Quoting Dave Selby <dave_arahan@yahoo.co.uk>:
[snip]
> 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
> 
> 425 Failed to establish connection.
> 
> Error in server response, closing control connection.
> Retrying.
> 
> This is a bit of a problem since I wanted to use wget to download open office 
> etc all from ftp sites .....
> 
> Any ideas ?

There may be a firewall between you and the FTP server that is
blocking active FTP.  Try adding --passive-ftp to the wget command
line.

HTH,
  Jeffrey