Lynx and FTP

[Steve Holmes]

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.
> > 
> > 
> 
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