Re: Active & passive FTP

[Sven Burgener <svenb@bluewin.ch>]

Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 09:14:32PM +0200, Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt wrote:
> > In my experience, you'll have to stick with passive, even though this is a
> > pain sometimes.
> 
> Pasive is good for the Clients, Active is good for the servers. IMHO you
> should offer Pasive on your server because of the many clients wanting to
> access it. If you do not have the infrastructure (dedicated ftp server) then
> you most likely should not do FTP but something like HTTP.
> 
> I'm still not finisged with my article on FTP Filtering, but some info is
> on:
> 
> http://www.freefire.org/articles/ftpexample.php3

Looks real nice. I'll read it through thoroughly later when it's done.

Thanks alot!

Cheers,
Sven