Can't list directory on ftp.winehq.com

[Michael Mauch]

Ove Kaaven <ovehk at ping.uio.no> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 9 May 2001, Michael Mauch wrote:
> 
>> Ove Kaaven <ovehk at ping.uio.no> wrote:
>> > 
>> > On Wed, 9 May 2001, Michael Mauch wrote:
>> > 
>> >> Google shows there was a bug in the ProFTPD 1.2.0pre10 which is used on
>> >> ftp.winehq.com:
>> > 
>> > There's no such problem that I can see.
>> 
>> Hmm, but apparently there was a bug with exactly that version of ProFTPD
>> that has been fixed.
> 
> It *could* be fixed. Debian's policy is that Very Important Fixes are
> backported to the versions in stable, but the versions are never upgraded
> if it's in any way possible to avoid it, in order to avoid destabilization
> of debian-stable (things that used to work should never stop working in
> updates to debian-stable... this is not always the case for security
> upgrades in other distros). But I can't say for sure, other than that I
> don't have problems, as long as I remember "set passive off".

Ah, yes, that's it! If I use

  set ftp:passive-mode off

in lftp, it works, too.

Regards...
		Michael