I just said that because when I was enabling FTP on my server and thru the firewall, I opened port 20. Course I listened to dj_goku and that may have been mistake number 1. ;-) (We just love to bag on dj_goku.)

Brian Kelsay

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Justin Dugger jldugger@gmail.com 04/14/05 11:52AM >>>

Actually, you probably need a ftp tracking module installed into the kernel; ftp has two ports, the command and data port. The command port is 21, which does things like initiate transfers and list directory contents, etc. It also sends a random number which pertains to the port number for the data port. Now that I think of it, this usually matters much more for the clients, I'm not so sure of the server. Anyone wiser than I (it isn't hard)?

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Don't you also need port 20 open for ftp?

Brian Kelsay