Re: linux firewall (configuring ports)

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From: Andreas Tscharner
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 00:00

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Al Kooz <kooz@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi everybody

> a few (like the www, ircd, news and pop and the like). Now, everything
> is working, just that whenever I try to connect to an FTP server, the
> server tries to open a port back on my firewall (for whatever reason).
> Of course, since everything is closed, I can't get connected. Thus I
> cannot use FTP at all. Can anybody tell me how to do that, for it to
> work ?

There are two ftp modes: active and passive. One of them (unfortunately, I
don't know which one) reconnects to your machine, the other one does not.
So all you have to do is to find out, does not connect back and change it

Regards
	Andreas
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