[SlugBug] vsftpd and ports and stuff. Blimey.

[mike dewar]

Okay. Umm. I think that page is trying to tell me to open up 'some' 
ports from 1024 onwards. Which I've done (ports 1024~1044)  to no avail. 
The web page seems to be saying I need to open ports >1024 but doesn't 
really specify which ones. I'm assuming that I only _need_ two open for 
a single ftp user, but I'm getting pretty confused. Why does ftp seem so 
much more complicated than ssh?

Is there a way to make the ftp command show an error or something that 
lets me see just what's going on? At the moment it feels like I'm 
opening up the RH box more and more to the net and nothing much is 
changing...

Is there a simple way to directly transfer files between the computers 
that's easier than all this?

Thanks for the help on this...

Neil McGovern wrote:

>On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 02:05:18PM +0100, mike dewar wrote:
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>>I can't ftp to the RH box from Uni.
>>[...]
>>: How do I ftp to my friends RH box behind a router?
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>You need more than :20 and :21 open :)
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>http://slacksite.com/other/ftp.html
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>Neil
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