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Subject: Re: How can I use PASV?
From: Ian Dunkin <imd1707 @ ggr . co . uk>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 12:10:42 +0000 (GMT)
To: Patrick J Horgan <pjh70 @ eng . amdahl . com>
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <9403091606 . AA21062 @ cliffy . eng . amdahl . com>
Reply-to: Ian Dunkin <imd1707 @ ggr . co . uk>

On Wed, 9 Mar 1994, Patrick J Horgan wrote:

> Our site is behind a firewall.  Socks is running on the firewall configured to
> not accept any incoming connections.  This means that ftp won't work even when
> "socks"ified, because the data connection is an incoming connection.

It should work.  SOCKS won't allow incoming SOCKS connections, but it
should allow the back connections for your ftp-data to work, unless the
configuration of your firewall itself does not -- which would seem to be
the case. 

You may want to ask about this exercise on the SOCKS list
(socks @
 syl .
 dl .
 nec .
 com)..

    I.

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Ian Dunkin <imd1707 @
 ggr .
 co .
 uk>
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