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From: Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Subject: Re: RELATED connections and the feeling of security
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:52:16 +0200
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Martijn Lievaart a =E9crit :
>>
>>> should the ftp-conntrack helper expose arbitrary ports on the=20
>>> originating host?
>>
>> Yes it should, for the following two reasons :
>> 1) The host explicitly asked for it over the FTP control connection.
>> 2) The firewall administrator allowed it by loading the FTP conntrack=20
>> module.
>=20
> No, not arbitrary ports. The port asked for in the port command should=20
> be opened (and it is).

I took "arbitrary" as "arbitrarily chosen by the host".