[Info-vax] Help to eliminate delay in establishing FTP connection (VMS V7.x on VAX with MultiNet V4.4)

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/20/2021 6:27 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Steven Schweda  <sms.antinode at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> [...] it may fall back to passive mode [...]
>>
>>    I wouldn't think that that was possible.  As I thought that I
>> understood it, both sides need to agree on active-passive; it's not
>> something that one side would "fall back to" on its own.
> 
> I have seen servers that would time out and then go into passive mode
> when the connection failed.

It can do that.

But what would be the point?

When the client send PASV the server response contains
the data port number.

If the server goes into passive mode due to some logic,
then how would the client know what port to connect to?

Arne