Re: ftp://ftp.xemacs.org doesn't do "PASV" correctly -- makes it tricky to update XEmacs packages from behind a NAT
Samuel Bronson writes:
Fair enough, I suppose, but shouldn't they at least configure the
ftpd
to not even attempt PASV, so that instead of returning an unusable
endpoint, it would just give an error message?
Yes. The sticking point is that they are "15 minutes from switching
to the new archive host" (and have been for about 4 years now :-/ ),
so they resist doing much maintenance on the old system.
Also, it might be worth mentioning somewhere where those running
into
this problem would see it, though I'm not quite sure where that would
*be* except maybe some kind of error handler in the package system or
its UI...
I think a better way to handle this is just to install an http
transport and make that default.
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