[Info-vax] FTP VMS->VMS over net fails; something else-> VMS works

[Bob Koehler]

In article <h792qh$c2i$1 at pcls6.std.com>, moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) writes:
> Here's an odd one I just came across.
> 
> If I FTP from one VMS system to another over the internet, it doesn't
> work, until I do a FTP> SET PASSIVE ON.  From either Unix or Windows
> to the VMS system, it works as is, but 3 different VMS systems require the 
> SET PASSIVE ON. This is almost certainly a NAT router issue, not a VMS 
> issue, but what is VMS doing funky?

   Maybe you don't have passive as the default mode in the
   initialization file on your VMS systems, but do on the others?

   Where that file is depends on which IP stack you loaded on VMS.