[geeks] News server access

[Ken Hansen]

IIRC, FTP starts on one port, then takes the conversation (file exchange) to
another, random port - freeing up the original port for (more connections? -
drawing a blank)

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kurt Mosiejczuk" <kurt at csh.rit.edu>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] News server access


> I seem to recall that the multiple connections was to provide
> a lot of flexibility with multiple streams happening at once...
> or I could just be on crack.  Regardless, I think the flexibility
> they wanted to provide was never really used by anyone...



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