Subject: Re: can't FTP to any other servers
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 19:28:58 MST
Hi.
Once you connect, try typing passive before you do anything else. If you
are then able to do an ls, get, etc., you have something blocking certain
ports for incoming connections. What you are experiencing is common on for
machines setting behind firewalls.
Jim
Yukiko Takiguchi's bits of Mon, 14 Feb 2000 translated to:
>Hello,
>
>I'm in trouble :-<
>I know it sounds strange, but it's happened ...
>
>I cannot FTP to any other server.
>I can connect the FTP server and I can type my username and passwasrd in,
>but, if I try like ls command:
>
>Remote system type is UNIX.
>Usng binary mode to transfer files.
>ftp>is
>200 PORT command succeddful.
>
>nothing appear after this. Then after a while, I get this kind of message:
>
>425 Can't build data connection: Operaton timed out.
>
>I think the server dosen't have problem, because I can do them from MacOS
>environment and it happens for all other server I try to connect from YDL.
>
>Yukiko Takiguchi @ Syracuse, NY
>
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