Bill Bumgarner wrote: []
I would think that answering 'n' -- disabling passive -- would work much better with firewalls. It is certainly a requirement for NAT translating routers (airport base stations and cable/dsl routers, included).This is the world upside down. You are the first person I heard of saying that -P works for them and passive mode doesn't.
Note that I cannot verify this myself. Although I am behind a NAT translating router at home and behind a firewall that blocks most ports at work, I can use either setting, and both of them are working.
On the other hand, there are many messages on record in the list archives where people had problems with -P set ("ProxyPassiveFtp: no"), and changing this setting made things work. In addition, there are a couple of servers out there that respond to -P with "server doesn't grok PORT".
So until someone else confirms your observations, I still think the Fink documentation is right when it says
"It is recommended that you leave this option on at all times since active FTP is deprecated."
--
Martin
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