Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting

[Brandon Ross <bross () netrail net>]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Sean Doran wrote:

> The major problem I have with ftp, from the perspective of someone
> trying to build networks, is that most clients generally do not
> do passive-mode ftp by default, despite many years of harranguing
> going waaaaay back to Vadim Antonov's argument for that here.

It's gets worse.  At least as far as I can tell, the built in command line
ftp that comes with Win 2000 doesn't support passive mode at all.  That's
quite frustrating.  Of course I accept the answer, don't use Windoze, but
unfortunately the corporate types don't.

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