"Geoff Thornburrow (DSL HN)" <GeoffT@datacom.co.nz> wrote:
>You need to forward (pinhole) TCP port 21 from the modem through to the FTP
>server. The FTP server also needs to be able to make outgoing connections on
>TCP port 20.

Forget about port 20. It's used by the server as a source port, not a
destination port, so pinholing port 20 has no effect.

Also, consider using protocols other than FTP where possible; HTTP for
anonymous file retrievals (and possibly authenticated as well), SSH/SCP
for authenticated access.

(Insert FTP-must-die rant here.)

-- don

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Received on Fri Oct 5 11:47:43 2001