On May 4, 2006, at 10:52 PM, Profile wrote: > Seems that the firm will not allow an FTP entrance if the provider > does not also provide the DNS with the request, and I guess Insight > has removed that key component, so I have had to install DSL just > to get the info. I need until they can get the problem corrected. > I will be glad when they are through all this.
I don't understand the problem. Are they requiring a reverse DNS lookup to work? I am surprised any company allows ftp access to anything at all any more. There are few protocols as insecure as ftp. I'd expect sftp, https or scp instead because those are secure. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2398 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060504/bee878ba/attachment.bin
