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Subject: Re: Strange todo at UAB ftp site?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:50:28 05/21/02

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On May 21, 2002 at 02:16:56, Dann Corbit wrote:


You are apparently running behind a firewall.  Use the "passive" command to
put ftp into "passive mode".  This prevents the ftp server on my end from trying
to open a _new_ connection to you for downloads, since your firewall is
blocking SYN packets which prevents new connections from being created...




>I heard rumors about a new crafty (18.14) so I tried to FTP to the UAB ftp site:
>
>Q:\>ftp ftp.cis.uab.edu
>Connected to juniper.cis.uab.edu.
>220 juniper.cis.uab.edu FTP server (Version wu-2.6.0(1) Fri Jun 23 09:17:44 EDT
>2000) ready.
>User (juniper.cis.uab.edu:(none)): anonymous
>331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
>Password:
>230-                    Welcome to the
>230-            University of Alabama at Birmingham
>230-    Department of Computer and Information Sciences ftp archives.
>230-    You are user 24 of 50 of available anonymous connections.
>230-
>230-This is the wu-archive experimental FTP server.  If have any
>230-unusual problems, please report them via e-mail to will@cis.uab.edu
>230-If you do have problems, please try using a dash (-) as the first character
>230-of your password -- this will turn off the continuation messages that may
>230-be confusing your ftp client.
>230-
>230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
>ftp> cd pub
>250 CWD command successful.
>ftp> cd hyatt
>250-Hello!
>250-
>250-the current version of Crafty is 18.13
>250-
>250-The first two files you download should be "read.me" and
>250-"crafty.faq".  Check the read.me file first, it explains
>250-what files are here and what you should download to get
>250-crafty up and running.
>250-
>250-There are now several 6 man endings in the TB directory.  Crafty
>250-will use them if you download them.
>250-
>250 CWD command successful.
>ftp> cd v18
>250 CWD command successful.
>ftp> ls
>200 PORT command successful.
>
>
>It just hangs there on the ls command...



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