, you're gonna love this. Feel free to ping me tomorrow to guffaw.
Also, curiously, this builds on my last post, since it's an even-more complicated protocol (really, a set of protocols, but all in support of the same application) that needs to get through a firewall. Say what you want about how this might be [...]
Look, FTP's actually kind of a tricky protocol. It's got this “separate channel” thing going on, that can be a bit fidgety to get stateful firewalls to handle, since the data bits go on a different (and undetermined) port, picked after the connection for the command channel (with dest port 21 on the FTP server) [...]
From:
To: “Jim Freas”
cc: “Bernadine Goepfert” , ['s boss]
Subject: Re: VERITAS Support: Case ID 240-118-846
Date: 06/08/2005 11:06 AM
That's not an acceptable response, Jim; that's masking the problem.
We have many other environments which perform many vault operations and run 4.5FP6, the last version of 4.5 that has been approved by $CURRENT_EMPLOYER's internal engineering [...]