Subj : FTP port 20 and QWK? wait...what?
To   : Rixter
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Dec 16 2024 22:01:57

  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.

 > I had originally had my max
 > concurrent FTP connections set to one, but changed it to 10. What is the
 > usually max settings the rest of you use? I think that was causing some
 > connections a problem. Am I correct. Thanks!

It's up to you, but QWK packet transfers should not be using more than one concurrent connection.
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