Subject: Re: *** Netscape 2.0 and wu-ftpd ***

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 12:46:25 -0700

> 
> <I've read a few postings from a while back that describe a problem 
> <with Netscape trying to access FTP hosts running wu-ftpd with the 
> <standard "ftp://www.anyname.com/pub".
> <
> <Is there any fix for this yet ??  Apparently it's a Netscape bug 
> <because NCSA Mosaic seems to work fine.
 
Yes, it is the "PASV" problem.  You need to reconfigure your
firewall to allow High TCP port traffic.  OR, configure your
firewall software to allow incoming FTP.  There's a decent
description of it in the "Firewalls and Internet Security" book
by Cheswick and Bellovin.

It's a nasty way of doing FTP.

>>Ericw
(Don't we have an official archive yet?)

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 96 10:11:37 PST

I found this in the FAQ and also while checking out some software the 
     site had a read me and they had the same problem.  (I have posted 
     about it as well and got the firewall responce, but it turned out not 
     to be this.)
     
     From the FAQ
     
     11.Normal ftp clients work, Netscape ftp's fail. So, passive mode 
     doesn't work. 
     
       Apparantly ftpd needs write permission on ~ftp/dev/tcp in order to 
     operate correctly in passive mode (Solaris). Set it to the same mode 
     as permissions shown by ls -lL /dev/tcp, being 666. Also read the 
     Solaris man page for ftpd for Solaris-specific information. Changed 
     from previous versions 
     
     Fix: 
     
     cd ~ftp/dev
     hmod 666 tcp
     
     Thanks to Simon Rakov ([email-masked]) for this one.

     The FAQ is located http://www.hvu.nl/~koos/wu-ftpd-faq.html

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Subject: Re: *** Netscape 2.0 and wu-ftpd ***
Author:  [email-masked] at ww-internet
Date:    4/12/96 1:11 PM

> 
> <I've read a few postings from a while back that describe a problem > <with 
Netscape trying to access FTP hosts running wu-ftpd with the > <standard 
"ftp://www.anyname.com/pub".
> <
> <Is there any fix for this yet ??  Apparently it's a Netscape bug > <because 
NCSA Mosaic seems to work fine.

Yes, it is the "PASV" problem.  You need to reconfigure your firewall to allow 
High TCP port traffic.  OR, configure your firewall software to allow incoming 
FTP.  There's a decent description of it in the "Firewalls and Internet 
Security" book by Cheswick and Bellovin.