3 Nov
2002
3 Nov
'02
1:30 p.m.
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
I do remember using archie to locate programs
available via FTP, and even
pulling one or two packages off Usenet but nowadays I find most of the
software on the web (via Google). Also, using FTP is a pain in these days
of firewalls and NATing (try, just try, FTPing a file between two systems,
each behind a firewall. Can you say ``futility?'')
s/a firewall/a poorly-administered MS firewall/
I move files (by both FTP and scp) regularly between very tightly
firewalled networks. If the Network/Firewall Dude has any clue at all,
it's simple to enable even active FTP transactions.
NetMeeting is much more of a challenge. The MS setup demands random
ports between 1024 and 65536, with *no* facility to limit the range....
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