Unfetchable distfiles reminder

[Seán C. Farley]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Seán C. Farley wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Bill Fenner wrote:
>
>> In addition, the list of all ports with any unfetchable distfile is
>> 
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/bad.html
>
> For open-motif, it says:
> ftp://ftp.ics.com/pub/Products/Motif/om2.2.3/src/openMotif-2.2.3.tar.gz:
> looking for file 550 openMotif-2.2.3.tar.gz: No such file or directory.
> (Last OK result NEVER [checked 17 times since Sun Sep 11 16:02:14 2005
> UTC, last time was Mon Feb 6 13:18:45 2006 UTC])
>
> It works from the port to fetch it.  fetch uses PASV to download it.
> With a tool I wrote and curl, which both use EPSV by default, it fails.
> I bet the port survey tool is using EPSV.  Maybe, ICS has a firewall
> that does not understand EPSV so does not open the port for the incoming
> connection.

I should read more carefully.  What I said above is true, but ICS's FTP
server does not list the distfile although it exists.  That may be the
actual problem.

I would still watch out for those bad EPSV-ignorant firewalls.  :)

Seán
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