Also, try running 'fink configure'. When it gets to the question about
using passive mode FTP, answer 'Y'. That seems to work for this problem
fairly often.
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On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Chris Devers wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Rich Grenyer wrote:
>
> > >curl -f -L -P - -O ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/bzip2/v102/bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz
> > >curl: (30) Server does not grok PORT, try without it!
> > >### curl failed, exit code 30
> > >Downloading the file "bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz" failed.
> >
> >
> > Am getting the sources elsewhere, so not actually a problem. But what
> > does it mean?
>
> There could be a firewall in the way, on your end or on theirs. Or the FTP
> server could just have this feature disabled, though to be honest I'm not
> sure what it means (something about using a different tcp/ip port?
>
> % curl --help | grep PORT
>-P/--ftpport Use PORT with address instead of PASV when ftping (F)
>
> When using the default of curl for downloading packages, I got this error
> a lot. Grabbing the same url with wget almost always got past this:
>
> % wget ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/bzip2/v102/bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz
>
> On the other hand, wget gets snagged on other things, so it's not like
> it's necessarily better. In the end, having both tools available helps.
>
>
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