On Sat, 8 May 2004, Eugene Grosbein wrote: Hi,
> When an active IPv4 TCP connection between > localIP:localport and remoteIP1:remoteport1 exists, > it is not possible for local non-root user to create outgoing > TCP connection from localIP:localport to remoteIP2:remoteport2. > > Why? It prevents http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/65928 > from resolving. to do it with other wording: if in active mode data is send to remote, the server uses ftp-data as port (which is 20 [ftp(21)-1]) and you are running into creating a socket in the privileged port range: net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedlow to net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh which "only may be opened by root-owned processes" [ip(4)]. -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT 56 69 73 69 74 http://www.zabbadoz.net/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
