On 2000-10-02 21:04:53, William Jensen wrote:
> Call me goofy because my firewall decided it was going to stop working.  I 
> have
> the following line in for allowing ftp info back and forth...
> 
> $IPT -A INPUT -p tcp ! --syn --source-port 20 --destination-port 1024:65535 
> -j ACCEPT
> 
> I also tried..port 21
> 
> $IPT -A INPUT -p tcp ! --syn --source-port 21 --destination-port 1024:65535 
> -j ACCEPT
> 
> I can ftp into a ftp site and move around directories but I cannot see 
> anything
> on a ls.  What have I wrought?

ftp is (normal) active mode will open a _new_ data socket to your ftp
server (e.g. --syn) at some port (>=1024).


/Allan
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