Re: Cuervo, I disagree: ShareSniffer Released

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From: John Navas
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 06:20

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In <97cngt$mop$2@news.panix.com>, snorwood@redballoon.net (Scott
Norwood) wrote:

>
>In article <t5nj9t4vvua0ovclofd9fcidjgfqmjnk2m@4ax.com>,
> <rtoledo.you.must.remove.this.to.reply@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>>
>>If I scan your port 21, HOW am I trying to connect to it? and I know
>>you know it takes more than that it takes a tcp 21/20 connection where
>>a user name and a password has to be exchanged before that connection
>>happens,  or is it a trojan going outbound? but then that's internal?
>>UDP 21? please enlightens us
>
>Huh?
>
>Either you don't understand how FTP works or you're being intentionally
>argumentative.

Probably both.  <g>

>The "connection" has nothing to do with the exchange of a
>username/password pair.  I can "connect" to your FTP server just
>by typing "telnet somehost 21" (or by using any other utility that
>creates TCP connections...netcat, etc.).  The username/password
>pair cannot be exchanged until the connection exist.  The fact that
>an FTP server is basically useless until the username/password
>pair has been exchange is irrelevant to the question of when the
>actual connection has been established.

Correct.

-- 
Best regards,
John Navas     <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/>
     CABLE MODEM/DSL GUIDE:  <http://Cable-DSL.home.att.net/>

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