ftp windoze <- fc3 works fine, ftp fc3 <- fc3 doesn't work? (for me)

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Mar 14 13:43:38 UTC 2005


Bob Brennan wrote:
>>I think he meant it's a firewall issue on the FC3 *client* side. If you
>>disable the client's firewall, does it work?
> 
> 
> Below are 2 sessions (names and ip changed to protect the guilty), the
> 1st on the FC3 box with firewall disabled and SELinux off. The 2nd is
> through XP, same machine, same connection, dual boot. In XP I can ls,
> cd, pwd, get, and send with no probelms. In FC3 I can only pwd and cd,
> as you can see below. So the connection in FC3 is good, the server is
> good, the box is good, the connection is good, but FC3 ftp prevents me
> from seeing, getting, or sending anything to the server.
> 
> The key difference seems to be:
>   227 Entering Passive Mode (xx,xxx,xxx,xx,xxx,xxx).
>   ftp: connect: No route to host
> in the FC3 session
> 
> I even tried taking advantage of the line "If you experience any
> problems here, contact : bob at myserver.net" but the guy on the other
> end was useless! [grin]
> 
> bob(@myserver.net)
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> FC3 SESSION
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [xxx at localhost ~]$ ftp myserver.net
> Connected to myserver.net.
> 220 FTP Server ready.
> 500 AUTH not understood
> 500 AUTH not understood
> KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type
> Name (myserver.net:xxx): anonymous
> 331 Anonymous login ok, send your complete email address as your password.
> Password:
> 230-
>        *** Welcome to the MyServer.net anonymous ftp server ***
> 
>      You are user 1 out of a maximum of 10 authorized anonymous logins.
>      The current time here is Mon Mar 14 13:05:52 2005.
>      If you experience any problems here, contact : bob at myserver.net
> 
> 230 Anonymous login ok, restrictions apply.
> Remote system type is UNIX.
> Using binary mode to transfer files.

If, at this point, you use the command "pass off", what happens?

> ftp> ls
> 227 Entering Passive Mode (xx,xxx,xxx,xx,xxx,xxx).
> ftp: connect: No route to host

Is there a layer of network address translation going on between client 
and server?

Paul.




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