Still trying to get my site up!

[Garrett Cooper]

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>>From: Garrett Cooper [mailto:youshi10 at u.washington.edu]
>>Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 9:23 PM
>>To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>>Subject: Re: Still trying to get my site up!
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>>Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>>>>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of 
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>>Gerard Seibert
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>>>>Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 6:15 AM
>>>>To: Oliver Leitner
>>>>Cc: John Brooks; FreeBSD Question
>>>>Subject: Re[2]: Still trying to get my site up!
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>>>>My new problem is how do I do an FTP into the site. 
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>>>Well, you first have to FTP into www2.beerstud.us as the FTP protocol
>>>does not have any way to create a redirect the way that dydns is doing
>>>for you with their web server.
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>>>Second, if your ISP is so stupid as to block incoming port 80 yet allow
>>>people to run web servers on any other port number, then it is 
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>>>that they are stupid enough to block incoming port 21 (the FTP 
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>>port) yet
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>>>allow incoming FTP on any other port.
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>>>In which case you just run your ftp daemon and your command line ftp
>>>client program with the -P option and choose some convenient 
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>>>>I just tried using
>>>>WS~Pro from a WixXP machine, but that failed.
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>>>Don't know about that one however the WS_FTP that is the freeware one
>>>has a Advanced tab on the site config that allows you to specify the
>>>remote port.
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>>>Ted
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>>   Ted's advise  is really good considering that more ftpd's run on 
>>non-standard ports than httpd's, or at least what I've seen so far. 
>>Besides, if you have to serve via FTP then just use an ftpd instead of 
>>obfuscating transfers via httpd; ftpd is much better at helping people 
>>get files than http anyhow ;).
>>   I say get rid of the ISP and find a better one. Any ISP that 
>>actively blocks port 80-a port which should be allowed as a backup port 
>>for programs-isn't really setup correctly and I doubt that they 
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>>of your best interests in mind when making decisions.
>>-Garrett
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Drat. Did it again.