opening ports

[Bjoern Ottervik]

Ubuntu doesnt come with a firewall by default so you dont have to worry about
opening ports. If youve installed one you should be able to use it to do the 
opening. There are guides to installing and configuring proftpd in the wiki:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TitleIndex

/Björn Ottervik


Bruce wrote:
> Hi,
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> About 3 or 4 months ago I installed Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake.  At the 
> time I attempted to set up ftp.  I don't have notes on everything I did, 
> but I am sure that I did an apt-get install proftpd (I often used this 
> on Debian machines).  It wouldn't work.  I tried lots of things, read up 
> on IP Tables and made modifications there, and did a lot of Goggling.  I 
> did quite a bit of reading on Ubuntu help pages.  I have heard 
> suggestions that ports are now turned off by default (the world would be 
> a safer place if someone would tell M$ about ports being off by 
> default).  I was able to get sftp working, but I never knew exactly what 
> I did differently with sftp (got it to work) and ftp (did not get it to 
> work).  The slower transfers of sftp are annoying on large files (3GB - 
> 4GB) so I have never been happy with sftp.
> Now I am ready to try ftp again.  I assume that I am missing something 
> really simple.  If it were tough I would have found something in the 
> FAQs and Goggle searches.  Rather than beat my head against the wall 
> some more I'll just ask the questions:
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> 1) How would I open ftp ports after doing an apt-get install proftpd?
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> 2) What is the initial port configuration for Dapper Drake and how do we 
> control the opening and closing of ports for various "apt-get"  packages 
> and for "home brew" code such as perl networking code development?
>
> Thank you,
> Bruce
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