Re: Emacs FTP and BlackIce problems?

[Siegfried Heintze]

Kai,
Since I use emacs almost exclusively (and internet explorer, of course), I
am am concluding it must be emacs. The problem is erratic. Sometimes I can
go for a week without a problem. 3 days ago, Sunday afternoon, it happened
very quickly after using ange-ftp with emacs twice in a row. Hmmm... I like
your guess. The web hosting service (did I say ISP below? I meant web
hosting service) claims that I am the only one having these problems.
   Siegfried



"Kai Großjohann" <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net> wrote in message
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> "Siegfried Heintze" <sieg_heintze@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > My client's web hosting service uses a fire wall called black ice. I
used
> > emacs/ange/ftp extensively to edit files on live site but I constantly
get
> > black listed with black ice and I need to use DHCP to get a new IP
address
> > from my ISP.
> >
> > I an only suspect that emacs/ange/ftp is the culprit because that is
pretty
> > much all I use.
>
> Really weird.  Ange-FTP invokes the command-line program ftp to do
> its thing, and then Ange-FTP operates that program pretty much like a
> human would do.
>
> How quickly does it happen for you to become blacklisted?  Is it
> sufficient to just edit a file?
>
> One wild guess might be that you use filename completion a lot which
> might produce usage patterns in the ftp client that people normally
> would not use.  Maybe you could try to use dired a lot and avoid
> filename completion.  That would produce different usage patterns that
> might avoid triggering the black ice rules.
>
> If it triggers even by just using C-x C-f with a complete filename
> (without invoking filename completion), then you might try to use the
> same command-line client yourself.  Then you don't have to tell the
> firewall master about Ange-FTP.  Instead, you just tell them that you
> invoke ftp and issue the commands foo, bar, baz and then black ice
> blacklists you.
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