Hi Sergey, Thanks for responding. You're right and I hope this doesn't moot my email on this. I meant to edit that statement out after rereading the RFC and editing my email. You're correct that the RFC doesn't state what port is to be used for the data connection.
However I'm hoping you can help me with understanding why this seems to have changed. We use to use 1.3-2 on our systems and that version did source from port 20. That behavior has changed in 1.5 and is now sourcing from a high ordered port. Do you know if this was done on purpose or if it's a bug? If it was done deliberately then can you point me to some online resource that talks about why this is a good idea? There are a lot of directions that this discussion could go but for now I'm just trying to understand why the change was made and the reasoning behind the change. Thanks, Curt On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]> wrote: > Curt Gran (crazykz) <[email protected]> ha escrit: > >> Synopsis: >> Active FTP data connections are NOT being sourced from port 20 as >> stated in the RFC. > > Can you point to an RFC which requires this? STD 9 (RFC 959) tells > nothing about it. Neither does RFC 2228. > > Regards, > Sergey > -- IBA #330
