Re: ftp

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 5,  9:15pm, Wesley Leonard wrote:
> Subject: Re: ftp
> WMU does not want folks runing FTP servers...
>
> Last I heard your IP changes after every x packets sent (I can't verify
> this).  At any rate, I'm sure that port 21 is blocked from the outside
> world (except on certain networks like cs and cc and stuff).
>

Solution to both problems:

1.Use staticky dynamic DNS service to reregister your name to IP every time
your DHCP lease expires.  DHCP is what dynamically assigns your IP address,  it
is for a given number of seconds.  Usually the larger the network,  the shorter
the lease time,  to conserve addresses.

2.Run your FTP server on a non-standard port above 1024,  and let people who
want to connect to you know the port number.  This might be easier to do with
an http server like apache, than with ftp.