Lynx and FTP

[Janina Sajka]

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.
> 
> 

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				Janina Sajka, Director
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