[NTLUG:Discuss] FTP problem

[brian@pongonova.net]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 06:10:40PM -0600, Daniel L. Shipman wrote:
> When most clients try to connect to my ftp server, they are able to establish the connection but not able to do 'ls' or 'get' or 'put'.  They are able to do 'cd' and 'pwd'.
> 
> When they say
> ftp>ls
> 
> It says:
> 227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,1,1,115,233)
> ftp: connect: No route to host 

A workaround, in case you don't want to open your firewall to passive connections,
is to use an ftp client that isn't braindead like the vanilla ftp client shipped
with most O/Ses.

Try ncftp, which will by default try a passive connection and, failing this,
establish an active connection (which doesn't require an connection established
from client to server on another port). 

  --Brian

> 
> I am able to do traceroute to the ftp server from a client's machine.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
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