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Date:      Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:12:14 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: How to avoid passive mode ftp?
Message-ID:  <199604141212.OAA04771@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199604132251.AAA16028@keltia.freenix.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Apr 14, 96 00:51:31 am

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As Ollivier Robert wrote:

> > Hmm, i watched it picking some port # 40001 or so, and starting a
> > server process on my machine.  That's why i thought it would do
> > passive mode.
> 
> That's probably  due  to the following patch   when we decided   to use the
> 40000-45000 (now sysctl-controlled) range for FTP ports. 

>   Add support for high-range FTP data ports

I think it's not only that it was ``high range'', but i'm pretty sure
that the port on my side was the *server* port.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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