tech-userlevel: Re: ftp passive mode

Subject: Re: ftp passive mode
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Guenther Grau <Guenther.Grau@bk.bosch.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/25/1999 20:29:09

Andrew Brown wrote:
> in case i missed it somewhere...what's the reason for ftp using
> passive mode by default now? it's not wrong...it's just disarming (as
> in, counter to the last ten years of my experience using ftp).
Because many firewalls don't allow active ftp go through,
well our's doesn't.
 Guenther