Re: [Fink-users] Odd troubles with recent uses of fink update

[Viktor H. <vh...@ri...>]

Alexander Hansen writes:
 > One piece of advice that came up recently was to check on the
 > Proxies tab of System Preferences->Network and verify that the
 > Use Passive Mode FTP box is checked.

Yes, it is. I also am running the OSX software firewall under the
'Sharing' tab. However, I tried turning the latter off, and that
didn't help (although, oddly enough, it did help me when using
/usr/bin/ftp to poke around ftp.sunet.se from the command line).

I'm truly mystified.

Anyone else have any tips or suggestions?


V.

 > On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 11:41, Viktor Haag wrote:
 > > In the past few days, I've noticed some odd troubles with
 > > updating using 'fink' (i.e. fink selfupdate, fink update-all,
 > > fink install).
 > > 
 > > curl seems to be having no luck getting source packages through
 > > ftp.
 > > 
 > > In most cases, I get errors like "curl: (13) Odd return code
 > > after PASV" or "curl: (11) Odd return code after PASS".
 > > 
 > > Other times, curl just seems to hang when attempting to download
 > > from a site.
 > > 
 > > I then try to contact the various mirrors directly with ncftp to
 > > see if I can get more feedback.
 > > 
 > > I can connect fine to ftp sites, but when I attempt to do an
 > > 'ls', I get an error that says "Passive mode refused".
 > > 
 > > If I attempt to get a file that I assume should be there (like
 > > the tarball that fink was looking for in the first place), it
 > > borks with an error like "server said: data connection
 > > establishment failed".
 > > 
 > > Can someone please assist me in figuring out what's going on
 > > here? Up until very recently I was having no problems at all
 > > using passive FTP to get fink updates through our corporate
 > > firewall.
 > > 
 > > All the feedback here seems to indicate that the problem is at
 > > the FTP server end, but I have a hard time believing that.
 > > 
 > > Can someone give me some advice on how to debug this problem?
 > > 
 > > Is the problem with my local firewall? If so, how do I gather
 > > more information about what's going on so I can go and politely
 > > ask our IT people to fix what they've changed?
 > -- 
 > Alexander K. Hansen
 > Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University
 > visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
 > Levitated Dipole Experiment
 > 175 Albany Street, NW17-219
 > Cambridge, MA  02139-4213