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Old 10-15-2003, 07:13 AM  
ADDiCT
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Default Re: hrmm

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Originally posted by ratbot
well i thought I made it clear TheOne. I am behind a *nix machine and my windows machine which is hosting the ftp is running on 192.168.1.2 address. If i set Host=0.0.0.0 then the ftp will try and bind pasv transfers to 192.168.1.2. This will not work. It needs to bind to the ip that fookme.dhs.org resolves to.
is it possible to bind a socket to an IP that is not owned by the machine itself?
(if i try it here on a test program, it fails)

shouldn't the router take care of forwarding the incoming PASV connections to the correct LAN IP (192.186.1.2 in your case)
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