[wellylug] ICQ & FTP firewall scripts

[lloyd at fusion.net.nz]

oh? I've never encountered that before.

This might be a dumb question, but why would passive mode be a security
issue?

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:

> > 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