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|    Digital Man to Rixter    |
|    FTP port 20 and QWK? wait...what?    |
|    17 Dec 24 12:08:14    |
      TZUTC: -0800       MSGID: 53252.sync@1:103/705 2bc7e032       REPLY: 53241.sync@1:103/705 2bc719ce       PID: Synchronet 3.20a-Linux master/bbf9d5eac Dec 14 2024 GCC 12.2.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.23-Linux master/bbf9d5eac Dec 14 2024 GCC 12.2.0       COLS: 80       BBSID: VERT       CHRS: CP437 2       NOTE: FSEditor.js v1.105        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.       --         digital man (rob)              Rush quote #53:       He picks up scraps of conversation, radio and radiation .. Digital Man       Norco, CA WX: 74.1øF, 27.0% humidity, 0 mph SSE wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs       --- SBBSecho 3.23-Linux        * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)       SEEN-BY: 10/0 1 102/401 103/1 17 705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 128/187       SEEN-BY: 153/7715 218/0 1 215 601 700 840 860 880 226/30 227/114 229/110       SEEN-BY: 229/114 206 317 400 426 428 550 700 705 266/512 280/464 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 291/111 301/1 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 460/58 633/280       SEEN-BY: 712/848 902/26 5075/35       PATH: 103/705 218/700 229/426           |
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