11 Apr
2008
11 Apr
'08
9:26 a.m.
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 08:14:41AM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
On 10 Apr 16:02, mick wrote:
FTP is not a good protocol to use. You have to open up way too many ports for it to work reliably and port forwarding becomes a nightmare. Why not just use sftp and forward only port 22? Much more secure too.
This is why one has a decent firewall instead of a pile o' crap - nice firewalls can be configured to only open the relevant ports to the FTP session, linux firewalls have been able to do this for years (it's a bit of a god send).
How does one find out what "the relevant ports" are? My firewall can certainly open specific ports in specific directions.
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Chris Green