18 Jul
2000
18 Jul
'00
08:43
FTP connections are weird. you get a conneciton out, and then a connection back in, so if you firewall heavily it might flag it. As for ftp scans (ie people knocking on port 21) that is because WuFTPD, ProFTPD and several other FTP daemons were recently found to have security holes. Out weekly digest covers this stuff: http://www.securityportal.com/topnews/weekly/linux.html -Kurt