I might consider opening up port 20 however, I use lynx from two different machines inside my LAN and if it has to be forwarded, the host won't know which machine to forward it to. I might give it a try and see what happens. On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 09:50:13AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
