Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 10:58:21 +0800 From: James Lim <evilfry@sg.freebsd.org> To: "Thierry Black" <thierryblack@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTP and firewall--HELP Message-ID: <01060310582100.56148@evilfry.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <F1962m9lHiu3fQtYdVz00001ff6@hotmail.com> References: <F1962m9lHiu3fQtYdVz00001ff6@hotmail.com>
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Hi Thierry, =09I am not soo sure about the stockk ftp client. But i use pureftpd, whi= ch=20 helps me specify the port range that would be used for passive transfer m= ode=20 ( if clients enable ) i would then use the port range in my firewall rule= s as=20 well On Sunday 03 June 2001 08:27, Thierry Black wrote: > help please kind people! :) > > I need to set up a FTP serever, no virtual hosts, no anon, just user > accounts. User accounts need to be chrooted (/etc/ftpchroot works fine)= =2E > For those requirements, the stock daemon works fine, but I can't firewa= ll > the freaking thing to save my life. > > But without opening virtually all ports 1024 and up, how can I effectiv= ely > use FTP in a firewall? I seem to be able to get connections to work, bu= t > any PASSIVE transfers fail due to blocked ports. Disabling the firewall > corrects the problem. Non-passive transfers also work, but too many cli= ents > enable passive mode by default. > _______________________________________________________________________= __ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.co= m. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --=20 Regards, James Lim http://sg.freebsd.org | http://www.bsd-geeks.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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