Hello mark!

May 18 21:48 03, mark lewis wrote to Bo Simonsen:

 BS>> Fx. 2:236/100 (fido.kofobbs.dk), the transfer fails if it goes
 BS>> over port 23, if it goes over 60177/60179 there is no problem.

It should be 2:236/150

 BS>> Does anyone knows the difference about those ports?

 ml> technically speaking, there is nothing about the ports, themselves, 
 ml> that is any different from any other port... it must be something on 
 ml> the software side of the destination port that is causing the 
 ml> problem...

Uhm. He's using argus.

 ml> i'm performing a scan on that system now and currently see that only 
 ml> ports 21 and 23 are open... port 21 is being handled by the xitami 
 ml> ftp server... i'm not yet sure about what's handling port 23 and my 
 ml> scanner hasn't gotten up to the other ports, yet...

port 60177 and 60179 should be open too... BTW portscanning is illegal in dk.

 ml> i'll see what turns up in a bit when the scan completes and what i 
 ml> can determine by manually accessing those ports...

ok

Regards,
Bo

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