[Lancaster] firewall update

[Wayne Ward]

Hi ken its just a update on the smoothwall firewall 
Ive been setting up sorry if I wasnt clear.

Did you get your vsftp server up and running ok?

Regards
Wayne

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:53:19 +0000, Ken Hough <kenhough at btinternet.com>
wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 November 2009 17:33:49 Wayne Ward wrote:
>> Looks like I got a fix for the FTP on custom ports on the firewall !
>> look here
>>
http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=33332&p=265381#p
>>265381 Its not often you see ftp on custom ports but looks like a quick
>>fix
>> im just going to test now...
>>
>> I had a small problem today - the client was running a program that was
>> doing a who is lookup
>> So just added allow on port 43 on the firewall and that was fixed
>> So far the smoothie is cutting it good style !!
> 
> Hi Wayne!
> 
> Is this refering to my query a while back?
> 
> The messages refered to at the link given above mention the use of port
> 210.
> 
> My query concerned vsftp and it's use of ports in the upper thousands
> range. 
> Since then I've seen a fsftpd.conf file which does refer to this and
> actually 
> tells vsftp to restrict use of these ports as follows:
> 
> "
> # Limit passive ports to this range to assis firewalling
> pasv_min_port=30000
> pasv_max_port=30100
> "
> 
> Ken Hough
> 
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Wayne ward

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