From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 28 04:43:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46B4D16A426 for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 04:43:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout4.cac.washington.edu (mxout4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CDDC43D1F for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 04:43:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout4.cac.washington.edu (8.13.4+UW05.04/8.13.4+UW05.05) with ESMTP id j5S4hdOs021566 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:43:39 -0700 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (cs331-46.spmodem.washington.edu [140.142.167.47]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.4+UW05.04/8.13.4+UW05.05) with ESMTP id j5S4hOxI009435 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:43:28 -0700 Message-ID: <42C0D55C.5080008@u.washington.edu> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:43:08 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Still trying to get my site up! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 04:43:40 -0000 >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Garrett Cooper [mailto:youshi10@u.washington.edu] >>Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 9:23 PM >>To: Ted Mittelstaedt >>Subject: Re: Still trying to get my site up! >> >> >>Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>>>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of >>>> >>>> >>Gerard Seibert >> >> >>>>Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 6:15 AM >>>>To: Oliver Leitner >>>>Cc: John Brooks; FreeBSD Question >>>>Subject: Re[2]: Still trying to get my site up! >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>My new problem is how do I do an FTP into the site. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Well, you first have to FTP into www2.beerstud.us as the FTP protocol >>>does not have any way to create a redirect the way that dydns is doing >>>for you with their web server. >>> >>>Second, if your ISP is so stupid as to block incoming port 80 yet allow >>>people to run web servers on any other port number, then it is >>> >>> >>quite likely >> >> >>>that they are stupid enough to block incoming port 21 (the FTP >>> >>> >>port) yet >> >> >>>allow incoming FTP on any other port. >>> >>>In which case you just run your ftp daemon and your command line ftp >>>client program with the -P option and choose some convenient >>> >>> >>port number. >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>I just tried using >>>>WS~Pro from a WixXP machine, but that failed. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Don't know about that one however the WS_FTP that is the freeware one >>>has a Advanced tab on the site config that allows you to specify the >>>remote port. >>> >>>Ted >>> >>> >>> >> Ted's advise is really good considering that more ftpd's run on >>non-standard ports than httpd's, or at least what I've seen so far. >>Besides, if you have to serve via FTP then just use an ftpd instead of >>obfuscating transfers via httpd; ftpd is much better at helping people >>get files than http anyhow ;). >> I say get rid of the ISP and find a better one. Any ISP that >>actively blocks port 80-a port which should be allowed as a backup port >>for programs-isn't really setup correctly and I doubt that they >>have all >>of your best interests in mind when making decisions. >>-Garrett >> >> Drat. Did it again.