[issue7167] Smarter FTP passive mode

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> If the server is behind a NAT it should be up to the administrator to
> properly configure it so that the internal address gets replaced in
> PASV/EPSV replies.
> Any FTP server provides this possibility.
> IMHO, this is not in the realm of problems which should be dealt by
> ftplib. It's just server's fault.

Yes, probably. The point was only that lftp seemed to be able to handle
it, so I thought that maybe ftplib could be enhanced to match that.

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