Re: ftp

["Samir Badani" <snbadani@xxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>
To: <klug@klug.armintl.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 7:40 PM
Subject: Re: ftp


> 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.
>
>
>
thank you very much adam for replying back!! the next time i will try
this!!! hope it works!! thank you once again!!



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