[Info-vax] preventing FTP from timing out

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <k4feec$788$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
<seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 

> FTP opens a second connection - for the data transfer - in a way that 
> can and variously is blocked by the firewalls that often lurk within 
> network connections these days, which means folks managing FTP 
> transfers are tussling with the related errors, or they're using an 
> FTP-aware firewall, or (less desirably) have configured a DMZ FTP 
> server that's running with the ephemeral port range wide open.

This can confuse some people, but hopefully not the tech types.  There 
is also "passive mode" FTP.

> FTP transmits authentication credentials in cleartext, too.

Right, but not really an issue for anonymous FTP (which happened to be 
involved in my case).