[PLUG] Disto question

[Bruce Kilpatrick]

Thank you Ken.
Even if I had read the man page, I am not sure I would
have seen or understood that.  It is downloading as I type.



Kenneth G. Stephens wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 16:29 -0700, Michael M. wrote:
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>>Bruce Kilpatrick wrote:
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>>>I have tried repeatedly over the last several days to download Archie.  
>>>I have tried from archie.dotsrc as well as from several mirrors with 
>>>older versions, all to no avail.  The archie website does nothing, the 
>>>mirrors I tried with wget -c (tried archie.dotsrc too) and it hangs at 
>>>PASV and eventually times out.
>>>
>>>Is wget waiting for user input at the PASV?
>>>Do I need to know the secret handshake, the proper incantation, and the 
>>>correct direction to face while genuflecting?
>>>
>>>
>>>Any ideas?
>>>      
>>>
>>None here.  I will ask on the Arch mailing list or on the message 
>>boards, though.  I didn't download Archie myself because I already knew 
>>I wanted to try Arch, so I was just presuming the live CD was still 
>>available.  It sure looks like it is judging from the website.  But I 
>>apologize in advance if I've inadvertently led you down the garden path.
>>
>>I'll see if I can find anything out ... maybe someone else more informed 
>>will reply here in the meantime.
>>
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>>From the man wget page:
>       --no-passive-ftp
>           Disable the use of the passive FTP transfer mode.  Passive
>FTP mandates that the client connect to the server to establish the data
>connection rather than the other way around.
>
>           If the machine is connected to the Internet directly, both
>passive and active FTP should work equally well.  Behind most firewall
>and NAT configurations passive FTP has a better chance of working.
>However, in some rare firewall configurations, active FTP actually works
>when passive FTP doesn’t.  If you suspect this to be the case, use this
>option, or set "passive_ftp=off" in your init file.
>
>Ken 
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