From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 2 20:32:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f127.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.9.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A09A37B422 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 20:32:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thierryblack@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 20:32:52 -0700 Received: from 142.165.70.131 by lw9fd.law9.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sun, 03 Jun 2001 03:32:51 GMT X-Originating-IP: [142.165.70.131] From: "Thierry Black" To: matt@msg.ucsf.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTP and firewall--HELP Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 21:32:51 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Jun 2001 03:32:52.0114 (UTC) FILETIME=[DE976F20:01C0EBDD] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: "Matt Harrington" > >I don't believe it's possible. You have to inform people to use >non-passive mode when on the other side of the firewall. So what do peoples do, then. not put FTP server behind firewall? a lot of ftp clients use passive mode by default (most commonly ws_ftp) so we spend a lot of time in support telling peoples to turn off passive mode. we have hundreds of users that must use ftp and have been plagued with calls regarding this. >I encourage my users to stick with HTTP whenever possible. WebDAV, etc. > >Matt > > > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message