ftp from Red Hat AS 4.4 to Open VMS System

[Gaddis, Jeremy L.]

On 08/12/06, Troy Knabe <knabe at 4j.lane.edu> wrote:
> I am migrating from some Solaris boxes to Red Hat.  I have a couple of
> jobs that ftp a file to our legacy Alpha server running Open VMS (All on
> a private network).
>
> Anyway, from Sun and even Winders boxes the ftp works fine.  But from
> any of my Red Hat boxes, I get connected and can even run some commands,
> ie. status, rstatus.  But an ls, dir, get, or put all just hang forever.
>   Does anyone have any ideas.  I have already tried both ftp binaries on
> the boxes, and stopped iptables on the linux servers, with no luck.

Since the "control commands" seem to be working okay, and you're only
having problems with commands that open up a data channel, I'd check
your setup with port 20.  Check for passive vs. active mode, iptables
connection tracking, NAT issues, etc.


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Jeremy L. Gaddis, MCP, GCWN
http://www.linuxwiz.net/