Subj : FTP port 20 and QWK? wait...what?
To   : Rixter
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Dec 17 2024 12:08:14

  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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