FTP/SSL to access a server behind a NAT/PAT router

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thibault
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FTP/SSL to access a server behind a NAT/PAT router

Post by thibault »

Hello,

I'm setting up FTP/SSL to access a server behind a NAT/PAT router.

I managed in the end to set up the connection using :

"advanced"/"connection" /"use NAT IP / Address".

But I have to enter the IP address in plain ie : 213.223.215.58

whereas in the the site manager I entered for "Host / IP / url" the dyndns.org adress and it works for the 1rst TCP session (ie port 21).

Even if coreFTP is the best FTP client enabling that, before starting a transfer I have to ping my dyndns.org url and enter the correspoonding IP address in the box : "use NAT IP / Address", prior each tranfer set up
(it's not a static IP address : it may have changed).

=> why not allow url in names for "use NAT IP / Address". ?
=> or alternately remember in a context the resolution of the name in the first place.

I'm a telecom person I can cope through its not practical.
but for instance my sister could not do that and with this slight modification a non technical person, like my sister, could use fully coreFTP
thibault
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Joined: Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:57 pm

Post by thibault »

up please.

May be I should have posted that in feature request, but beforehand I wanted to be sure it was not a little bug (?)
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