moving the ftp port

[Kurt Wall]

In a 0.7K blaze of typing glory, M.W. Chang wrote:
> >I've already opened port 5051-5052 at my firewall. The ftp client didn't 
> >use passive ftp mode. What else could be wrong?
> 
> ok, proftpd is smart enough to ignore /etc/services. the ftp-data port 
> is always the (ftp port - 1). With Kurt's help, I verified I could 
> connect to my ftp server at 5052 using active mode.
> 
> I will try again with the M$ command-line ftp client tomorrow. The M$ 
> ftp client is quite handicapped. :)

That's an understatement.

Kurt
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