[wellylug] ICQ & FTP firewall scripts

Volker Kuhlmann kuhlmav at elec.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Mar 1 11:17:02 NZDT 2001


> FTP is easy, you don't need to allow any ports in, just make sure you set
> your FTP client to use passive mode.

... and forget about all those ftp servers which for their security only
work in active mode. E.g. sourceforge, at least a while ago. Type "dir"
in ftp, and if it dies, the server refused to go passive.

Volker



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