Armin, many thanks. Ping ftp.suse.com works fine. No interesting dropped packet messages to be found. passive_ftp = on already and today it works ! Sorry to have peetered everyone. But I learn more with every message read . Many thanks. Philip ----- Original Message ----- From: "Armin Schoech" <armin.schoech@web.de> To: <suse-security@suse.com> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 8:44 AM Subject: Re: [suse-security] YOU wont work since I set-up SuSEfirewall2 ?
Hi !
Are there any settings I need to watch out for regarding FTP in order to carry out an on-line update using YOU.
It may be a co-incidence but since setting up the firewall YOU keeps timing out. It spends some time getting a list of mirror FTP sites to use (10 minutes) but then times out after 20-30 minutes trying to fetch the list of patches available. How can I figure out what is going wrong ?
--> There were some versions of YOU that tried to ping the FTP-server. If this is disallowed by the firewall, you will have problems. Try "ping ftp.suse.com" from the command line.
Have a look at /var/log/messages to find out which packets are dropped by the firewall. This should give you a hint.
Another thing is passive/active FTP. Try to set "passive_ftp=on" in /etc/wgetrc.
HTH, Armin
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