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Subject: Re: Untrusted vs. trusted network security
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso @ cisco . com>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 22:00:33 -0500
To: Todd Graham Lewis <lists @ reflections . mindspring . com>
Cc: Ken Hardy <ken @ bridge . com>, Firewalls Mailing List <firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM>

Ditto. PASV FTP works fine, lasts a long time. Even has growing
client support.  :-)

- paul (who must use PASV mode FTP to The World)

At 08:38 PM 12/31/96 -0500, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:

>
>Virtually all modern ftp clients support the passive option.  I force my
>users to use it for just this reason, and I haven't heard too many
>complaints.
>
>Proxying return FTP connections is going too far in the direction of
>appeasing the user.
>


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