Re: make gnome listen on localhost:*

[Paul Warren <pdw ferret lmh ox ac uk>]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> On 06/15/00 13:43:50 +0100 Paul Warren <pdw@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> +-----
> | YES!! Do you know how passive mode FTP clients work?  I'll give you a
> | clue: it involves setting up listening sockets on the *client* machine to
> | recieve data transfers.
> +--->8
> 
> Uh, no, that's standard active-mode FTP.  Passive mode puts all listening 
> sockets on the server.

Apologies s/passive/active/ and the point still holds:

One of the two hosts involved has to be able to set up high
numbered listening ports.  So you cannot use a firewall which blocks
listening ports on high numbered ports, which is apparently the "proper
solution", on both ends of an FTP connection.

Paul