Wierd FTP Error

[Tim Wunder]

On 2/28/2004 7:58 AM, I believe that Kurt Wall wrote:

> In a 1.2K blaze of typing glory, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>>On 02/27/04 21:52, Kurt Wall wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have a bunch of computers behind my gateway box. One of them is,
>>>gasp, horror, an Windows 2000 system I have to use occasionally
>>>for books. Whenever I try to use FTP from the Windows system, I
>>>constantly get PORT errors:
>>>
>>>TYPE A
>>>502 Illegal PORT command
>>>
>>>This happens only at a command line prompt, but I've also seen
>>>it, IIRC, from some GUI FTP apps that I've tried. 
>>>
>>>Yet, I can use FTP to the same sites without trouble from my
>>>Solaris system and from the Linux systems. I suspect Windows
>>>is doing something untoward, but darned if I can figure out
>>>what it is or, more to the point, how to fix it. Any suggestions?
>>
>>maybe?
>>http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=502%20Illegal%20PORT%20command&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&lr=&num=50&hl=en
> 
> 
> Doh! I poked around at Microsoft's site, thinking it was surely a
> defect of the Microsoft product, so it didn't occur to me to ask
> Google. :-\
> 
> 

But google knows *everything*