Re: [ID 20000117.002] CPAN.pm problems

[Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>]

Andreas J. Koenig writes:
 > >>>>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 20:21:34 -0500 (EST), Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> said:
 > 
 >  > Turned out to be a new firewall.  Setting FTP_PASSIVE in environment
 >  > fixes it.  However: could CPAN.pm try passive mode itself?
 > 
 > I'm not sure if it should. There are many variations of firewalls.

If somebody wants to help Andreas/Graham out and hack firewall support
to CPAN.pm/libnet, I'd say ncftp is a good place to start, it knows
how to negotiate with *many* different firewall configurations.  In
the configuration file the various options are even described in
writing, no need to look at the actual ncftp code (I hope).

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References to:

Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)

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