[Gllug] FTP problem

[Andrew Halliwell]

And verily, didst adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk announce to the hordes:
> 
> I suspect this is some sort of misconfiguration in my iptables setup, but
> I cannot see where.
> 
> I eventually installed Aurora Linux 1.0 (a RH 7.3 clone) on my Sun SS20. I
> want to upgrade it and so installed yum.
> 
> I set yum to point to an ftp based repository and run yum update - and I
> get an FTP 500 Illegal Port error.

Yup. looks like ftp's blocked.
(active ftp involves the server connecting back to you, passive is just your
connection to them)
 
> Wget allows me to "login" with anon ftp to that server but I cannot
> download - again port error.

Have you tried manually ftping and issuing the passive command?

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