Re: Strange portrequest while trying to open FTP sessions
use passive mode , passv is the command is it ?
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Michael Abrahamsson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got this problem that I might need some help to solve.
> I'm currently using a linux machine with ipchains as firewall and got
> 3 (three) different nets.
>
> Net1: Outside the firewall
> Net2: DeMilitarized Zone (Mailservers, WebServers)
> Net3: Internal network
>
> I've just opened some ports from/to the internal net (among those are
> 21/ftp)
> but when I'm on a webpage and click a ftp link like this one:
> ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/pc_servers/m525w32e.txt
> nothing happens and it do time out.
> When I check the kernel log I can see that the workstation tried to connect
> to 204.146.167.81:18235 <-- Why the hell port 18235 (the port are differnt
> from time to time..)
>
> It works with ftp://ftp.sunet.se etc but shouldn't ftp:// always connect to
> the same port and is there a solution?
>
> Regards,
> Michael Abrahamsson
>
>
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