--- Christian Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tony Peden wrote: > > > > > FTP is a horrible protocol. As firewall admin you've got the > problem > > > that FTP decides dynamically what port it uses for data transfer. > So you > > > have to open quite a few ports. > > > > In pasv mode (settable from the client) it uses only one ... > > For the SuSE update I din't find that option (probably didn't look > long > enough...)
Most clients have it. A client embedded in a gui may not (if that's what you've got) > > > > > > > > > Dunno if that's the problem of the NAT part, but I can't reliably > use > > > FTP from my normal computer as packets get filterd at my > > > router/firewall. This is already quite bad (e.g. for the SuSE > auto > > > update) so we should do it better. And we should help to get rid > of FTP. > > > > 2.4 Linux kernels don't seem to have any trouble with it... > > My firewall runs under 2.4 with iptables... I can send you the script > that sets it up, so you might discover if I made a mistake somewhere. I think you want to use the newer ipchains ... I'll check and send you mine. > > > > PS: FTP also transferes passwords in plaintext to make things > even > > > worse... > > > > And http doesn't? > > scp doesn't. Yes, but that requires ssh, AFAIK. > And http can be exchanged by https. True enough. > If there's a "secure" FTP my client probably can't handle it anyway. The only one I know of isn't really ftp but sftp that comes with ssh. > > > CU, > Christian > > -- > The idea is to die young as late as possible. -- Ashley > Montague > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
