Re: [SPAM] [WS_FTP Forum] Setting up WSFTP Server

[Bob Conway]

One problem with dialups (if that's what you've got) is that Internet IP addresses are usually assigned dynamically by your ISP (Internet Service Provider) so that you usually get a different Internet IP address each time you dial in. You've got an IP address that your PC uses only internally (usually 127.0.0.1), but a different one that it shows to the Internet, and this is the dynamically assigned one you get from your ISP when you dial in. This makes running a server a bit problematic for a dialup customer, since its Internet IP address is a kind of moving target. Warning: Read on only if you're really interested in the IP address space problem! Why the dynamic IP address assignment? Well, the current Internet Protocol system, IP4, was designed a few decades ago when nobody seems to have anticipated the eventual soaring popularity of the Internet. IP4 addresses are a valuable and increasingly rare commodity, and the more of them an ISP has the more it costs them. Many ISPs offering dialup service have considerably fewer IP addresses available to them than it has dialup customers. As long as the customers don't all dial in simultaneously that's okay -- the ISP just assigns the next unused IP address in its collection to the next customer who dials in. That IP address gets freed up when the customer disconnects and so it is available for some other customer. This worked quite well when there weren't so many customers, and people only dialed in occasionally for a few minutes rather than browsing the Web for hours on end or (shudder, gasp) wanted to run their own Internet servers! With increased usage of the Internet in recent years, the IP4 address space is now pretty much all used up. This situation won't improve until the Internet switches over fully to the IP6 system, now in partial use. IP6 has a much larger address space, something approaching the number of atoms in the known Universe. We won't be likely to run out of address space in the future. (Until we discover an astronomically large number of alternate Universes with which to communicate!) But with so much existing hardware and software (like WSFTP) still set up to use IP4 addresses, we're in a transition stage right now. It will be a few more years, at least, before there's a massive switchover to IP6 across the board. Bob C. Mike.Schatzberg wrote: Alyssa,   Is your WS_FTP server on a dial-up machine that people will want to ftp into when you are connected to your ISP?   Mike Schatzberg The Clearing House [EMAIL PROTECTED]   -----Original Message----- From: Pete Simpson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 12:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SPAM] [WS_FTP Forum] Setting up WSFTP Server Just exactly how do you think you are going to use FTP without some type of network connectivity? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of o shal Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPAM] [WS_FTP Forum] Setting up WSFTP Server Hi all, I'm not an expert, so if my question is not clear or stupid, I appologize in advance. I need to set up an FTP server on XP machine, there is no network. This is for the small purpose to have few people be able to download/upload files. My question: what is my host? How do I set that part? Do i have to have a domain? and if I do, who is to add my host name to the domain? and which IP address will I need in that case? and if I go through ISP, do I have to notify them so that they add my host? I appreciate any replies very much. Alyssa Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs [ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ] ********************************************************************** The information contained in this E-mail and any of its attachments is intended only for the use of the address(es) indicated above, and is confidential. This information may also be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, review or use of the information contained herein is strictly prohibited. You may not copy, forward, disclose or use any part of this information. If you have received this information in error, please delete it and all copies from your system and notify the sender immediately by return E-mail. Thank you. Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be timely, secure, error or virus-free. The sender does not accept liability for any errors or omissions which arise as a result. ********************************************************************** Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/wsftp_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/