Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:30:02 -0700 (PDT) From: John DeStefano <deesto@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: configure ftpd port range Message-ID: <20030721193002.9828.qmail@web40604.mail.yahoo.com>
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Due to ISP restrictions, I must change the default port on which ftpd runs in order to enable ftp access to and from my machine. I had to do the same for my httpd server, but that information was a bit more accessible. Reading material has been sparse, but I've read that adding a port number/range to the ftpd entry /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf might do the trick. Is this an acceptible way of going about changing the ftp ports? If this box is sitting behind a hardware firewall (Linksys router), what range would you recommend I open in the firewall for a maximum of 5 ftp users? Same question for security on the FBSD box itself? Quick sidebar: DNS is setting my domainname to my ISP's domain, not my local domain, which is causing some problems. "man domainname" tells me " The super-user can set the domain name by supplying an argument", which I assume means "domainname <domain>". But this setting does not stick on reboot. Is there an easy fix? Thanks and regards, John $ uname -a FreeBSD gandalf.Optonline.net 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 16 22:16:53 GMT 2003 root@hollin.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month!
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