From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 20 3:55:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05FD314BE2 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 03:55:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Stanley.Hopcroft@ipaustralia.gov.au) Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id UAA02687; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 20:53:05 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au: smap set sender to using -f Received: from noteshub01.aipo.gov.au(10.0.100.21) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma002684; Tue, 20 Apr 99 20:52:48 +1000 Received: by noteshub01.aipo.gov.au(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.3 (778.2 1-4-1999)) id 4A256759.003BC37A ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 20:52:46 +1000 X-Lotus-FromDomain: IP_AUSTRALIA From: Stanley.Hopcroft@ipaustralia.gov.au To: eagle Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <4A256759.003BC214.00@noteshub01.aipo.gov.au> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 20:51:45 +1000 Subject: Re: FTP and NATD. How it works? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Sir, I am writing to say that in my view man natd does not explain how the FTP server manages to identify the aliased host when it opens the data channel (in the usual non passive mode). To me the question is how does natd process a connection request to the aliased hosts since the tcp connection request has the alias address and no other information. That said, I don't see how any incoming tcp connection could be processed so there is at least onee dummy - me - that will gratefully hear your anwser. Yours sincerely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message