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   Message 40,847 of 43,341   
   Digital Man to Rixter   
   FTP port 20 and QWK? wait...what?   
   17 Dec 24 12:08:14   
   
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     Re: FTP port 20 and QWK? wait...what?   
     By: Digital Man to Rixter on Mon Dec 16 2024 10:01 pm   
      
    >   Re: FTP port 20 and QWK? wait...what?   
    >   By: Rixter to all on Mon Dec 16 2024 06:58 pm   
    >   
    >  > Do I need to have port 20 open for anything related to QWK packet   
    >  > transfers out from my BBS to someone wanting to receive QWK packets from   
    >  > my BBS? I do not see anything on the WIKI about this.   
    >   
    > If your users are going to use "passive" FTP, then 2 connections need to   
    > made to your system: the control connection (by default on port 21) and the   
    > data connection (by default on whatever the control port number is, minus   
    > one, so 20 by default).   
    >   
    > This is standard for operating any FTP server on the Internet and nothing   
    > specialf or Synchronet.   
      
   Correction: TCP port 20 is not used normally or by default for passive FTP   
   data connections.   
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