From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id: <200301092303.h09N3DD23525@brother.ludd.luth.se>
Subject: Re: old packages on simtel
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 00:03:13 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <200301092244.h09MiFC18715@envy.delorie.com> from "DJ Delorie" at Jan 09, 2003 05:44:15 PM
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According to DJ Delorie:
> > I just get "No route to host" (with netscrape).
> 
> The firewall blocks traceroute.  Just ftp to ftp.delorie.com.  If your
> ftp client complains, try not using passive mode (if your firewall
> supports it), or make sure your ftp client is following the ftp spec
> WRT data stream port numbers.  Your client is supposed to connect from
> port 20.  If it doesn't, it won't get through my firewall.

ftp works fine. I haven't tried mirror yet, though.

With strace netscape I see "read(12, "227 Entering Passive Mode
(207,2"..., 1024) = 51", which ought to mean that netscape requested
passive mode, and the server obliged.

Yes, ftp and send "pass" gives "ftp: connect: No route to host".

> I'll look into making this work better, though.

Thanks.

> > And deleted is never deleted? That would be nice.
> 
> Yup.

Are you sure? Perhaps a disk crash or something ate gcc281?.zip and
some?


Right,

						MartinS