Re: PORT or PASV mode of IIS 4.0's FTP

[Dug Song <dugsong () MONKEY ORG>]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, C. K. Lung wrote:

> The ftp client is trying to "get" 15,000 1-K files from the IIS's FTP
> server, the connection is killed by FW-1 after it got 100 files.  The
> fw-log shows that when the client's "source port" hit a "pre-defined
> service (port) in the rulebase, the connection is dropped.  CP
> explained that FW-1 thought that it was a security violation.

can you show us the log entry?  or better yet, a traffic trace of the
client up to the connection drop? sounds like a collision in FW-1's
connection state table.

i wonder whether it's really FW-1 doing the dropping, or the FTP server -
in the course of testing duke's funny technique to determine listening RPC
services on filtered ports, i ran into several FTP servers that would exit
after a certain number of consecutive PASV requests:

        http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/ftp-rpc-probe.sh

just a guess,

-d.

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