Re: FTP, Win-NT, and xFTP

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On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote:

> Sounds like a firewall-problem to me, I had the same when setting up
> iptables for the first time, the sollution for me was to open for
> outgoing connections on ports above 1024 and incoming
> RELATED/ESTABLISHED on the same ports.
> The problem is that the ftp-server doesn't communicate on the designated
> ftp port, it just sets up the session there and then tells your client
> what port to connect to.
> Don't know if this solves it for you, but that was the sollution when I
> had the exact same problem.

Does that mean that some FTP clients are smarter than others, and can work
around the firewall?

Hrm.  When I get home, I'll have to poke around with it.  While I can work
the firewall via lynx, it's a bit kludgy, and I'm not sure what I'm
doing...  Better to play it safe...

Krikket




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