[ale] FTP setup problem...

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Sat Nov 27 21:08:01 EST 2004


On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 13:56:06 -0500, Brian J. Dowd <bdowd at dentfirst.com> wrote:
> Thanks, everyone.
> Post 21 was blocked by the firewall. I thought that because the
> FTP server was talking to the client this indicated that all the FTP
> ports were open.
> My mistake. All is well now :-)

If I understand it, the passive mode tries to open port 21 in the
other direction - so the firewall on the server box may be set right
(port 21 open) but the client box may be blocking port 21.

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