ftp://ftp.xemacs.org doesn't do "PASV" correctly -- makes it tricky to update XEmacs packages from behind a NAT
Samuel Bronson writes:
It seems to understand the PASV command well enough, but the data
connection itself doesn't seem to go through, so I suspect that the
ftp server and firewall configurations have gotten out of sync, so
that PASV returns connection parameters containing ports that get
filtered.
This is a known problem. The host doesn't seem to be terribly
interested in fixing it. I recommend just using a mirror if you can't
use active FTP.
All of this wouldn't be much of a problem -- I could still access
the
files by http -- except that package installation doesn't support
that.
We really should fix that. Patches welcome.
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