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From: "David Christensen" <dpchrist AT holgerdanske DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Don't seem to be able to use CPAN after recent Cygwin updates (maybe)
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:23:53 -0700
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cygwin AT cygwin DOT com:

Wardman_Michael wrote:
> I used to be able to use CPAN (only a week or so ago) but now it seems
> to time out. I thought it might be a network / firewall type thing but
> I can use ncftp ok. See below ...

Does your environment have FTP_PASSIVE set?

    dpchrist AT w2k30g:~$ cat .bash_profile | grep FTP
    export FTP_PASSIVE=1


HTH,

David


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