Recently I learned a bit about this. I don't recall which is which, just that I needed to enable both ports 20 and 21. In the case of my firewall, that was a matter of forwarding those ports appropriately. On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Toby Fisher wrote: > On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Steve Holmes wrote: > > > I sit behind an IP masqueraded host. When I use lynx to access normal > > http stuff, everything is fine but if I hit on any FTP links, the > > program simply hangs. I'm quite sure it is because the FTP being > > implemented by lynx is active instead of passive. Active FTP which > > depend on the port command do not work over ipmasq networks but > > passive does. Does anyone know if and how one can get lynx to use > > passive FTP instead? When I looked recently, I did not find anything > > in Lynx config or doc files on the subject. I could be wrong on my > > assumptions but I can go in with lftp and its default of passive mode > > and all is fine. > > Do you have access to the masquerading machine? If so, there are ftp > helper modules for the Linux kernel which you will need to enable in order > for active ftp to work, but it should, I believe. > > Cheers. > > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
