From: "François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Is the snapshots down?
Date: 12 Jun 2000 13:07:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <oqr9a2bzga.fsf@titan.progiciels-bpi.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Jim Davidson's message of "Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:56:25 GMT"
[Jim Davidson]
> Felix Hagemann <fx@coop-x.de> writes:
> > Jim Davidson <jdavidson@nospam.com> writes:
> > > For the past week I have been unable to get the nightly snapshots.
> > I tried to reach ftp.gnus.org with Netscape, couldn`t get through. The I
> > tried plain ftp on the command line: worked like a charme!
> That did the trick. Thanks!
> Dunno why it doesn't work with Netscape, but at least there's a workaround.
It might be related to the fact that Netscape uses "passive FTP" mode.
Some firewalls allow passive FTP mode through, others allow FTP through
except for passive mode. (Someone told me that, I did not study the matter).
--
François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-06-12 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-06-06 17:09 Jim Davidson
2000-06-06 19:50 ` Felix Hagemann
2000-06-12 16:56 ` Jim Davidson
2000-06-12 17:07 ` François Pinard [this message]
2000-06-12 17:18 ` Chris Shenton
2000-06-06 22:05 ` Kai Großjohann
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