Re: make gnome listen on localhost:*

["Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery ece cmu edu>]

On 06/15/00 13:43:50 +0100 Paul Warren <pdw@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
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| YES!! Do you know how passive mode FTP clients work?  I'll give you a
| clue: it involves setting up listening sockets on the *client* machine to
| recieve data transfers.
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Uh, no, that's standard active-mode FTP.  Passive mode puts all listening 
sockets on the server.

Blocking high ports on a masquerading host disables masquerading, though.

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