Re: FTP broken

[Brian A May <bmay@dgs.monash.edu.au>]

On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 10:07:26AM +1000, Brian A May wrote:
> ftp> mget *
> ---> TYPE A
> ---> EPRT |1|130.194.1.91|3575|
> ---> NLST *
> mget dgs4000.tar.bz2? n
> mget thesis_h.tar.bz2? n
> ftp> prot private
> ---> PBSZ 1048576
> ---> PROT P
> S:200 Data protection is private.
> ftp> mget *
> ---> EPRT |1|130.194.1.91|3577|
> ---> NLST *
> 
> [computer hangs here]
> 
> clear works but private doesn't work. However dir always works regardless.
> Strange. Anyone else got ftp to work?

Furthermore:

ftp> nlist *
ftp: setsockopt SO_DEBUG (ignored): Permission denied
---> EPRT |1|202.12.87.129|2350|
S:200 EPRT command successful.
---> NLST *
S:150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for 'file list'.
dgs4000.tar.bz2
thesis_h.tar.bz2
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[... illegal ascii continues for ever...]

Heimdal 0.1m linux client and server.

Similar results with OSF/1 client. I could try the same thing with Ultrix,
but probably not much point.

This is probably why it isn't working for mget.
-- 
Brian May <bmay@csse.monash.edu.au>