Re: IM

[Colin Ingram <cjingram@wisc.edu>]

Scarletdown wrote:

>Paul Johnson wrote:
>  
>
>>On Friday May 6 2005 7:54 am, Kent West wrote:
>>
>>In a pinch, you can also upload an image to my wiki for display.
>>http://ursine.ca/Special:Upload
>>    
>>
>.  Or, if you want to get some geeky experience points,
>you can apt-get install vsftpd, copy the image you want to share to
>/home/ftp, set your firewall to allow access to port 21 from the
>Internet, then post your current IP address so people can just ftp in
>and see the image.  Granted, most ISPs don't actually like for their
>users to host their own servers, but frankly, if it is just a
>temporary thing there shouldn't be any problem.  
>
Yeah, My ISP blocks incoming connections on port 21 ( a whole host of
other ports too), its a good thing there is nothing special about that
TCP port...just tell people to FTP to port 2121.