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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
- Subject: Re: Access Lists and FTP
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 19:51:01 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- In article <32416@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> kwieman@.stern.nyu.edu (Karl Wieman) writes:
- >I am attempting to restrict the use of ftp. I would like for hosts on subnet
- >A to be able to ftp to other subnets, but not for anybody to ftp "in" to
- >subnet A. I have managed to restrict ftp access to subnet A, and users on this
- >subnet are able to connect to other hosts with ftp. However, when they try
- >to 'get' a file it fails to make the necessary connection.
-
- You have to allow incoming connections to high-numbered ports for this.
- When you do a file transfer with FTP, the FTP client becomes the server for
- a data connection. It starts serving on an essentially random port, sends
- the port number to the FTP server, and then the FTP server connects to the
- client.
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- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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