ftp://ftp.xemacs.org doesn't do "PASV" correctly -- makes it tricky to update XEmacs packages from behind a NAT

I can't access ftp://ftp.xemacs.org from behind a NAT. It's not just an EFS problem, either -- I tried it with Chrome, too, and that didn't work either. It also isn't a problem with my connection/NAT: I can access ftp://ftp.gnu.org just fine with EFS and with Chrome. 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. Wireshark didn't really show much except the connections seeming to time out. (My cable modem drops all ICMP packets -- it told me so! -- so I can't say whether there were any or not.) (Strangely, sometimes EFS seems to get a whole lot of NULs in the FTP process buffer, but I don't know where they come from.) 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. It seems that ftp://ftp.ca.xemacs.org is working today, though. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta