Subject: Re: can't FTP to any other servers
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 01:59:18 MST
Hi. Have you taken a look at your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny
files? Often the default in hosts.deny is ALL:ALL which means many of
your daemons will not be allowed to accept incoming connections. If your
hosts.deny file includes the line ALL:ALL, you might want to remove that
line and see if your problem is solved. If so, then you really should
put it back and add appropriate entries to the hosts.allow file. In the
simplest case, this would be something like ALL:<IP_address> where IP
address is the address of the machine that masquerades for you. You can
get more information with
man hosts.allow
and
man hosts.deny
Jim
Yukiko Takiguchi's bits of Tue, 15 Feb 2000 translated to:
>Hello,
>
>Thank you for your advice.
>
>I tried "passive", then ... it works !!
>
>But I am still not sure what is wring with it.
>
>I use another PC-Linux, slackaware versin 7 with kernel 2.2.13, as a IP
>Masqarade
>server. I use & shear a cable modem line.
>But I think the PC-Linux server isn't wrong, becasue from other my doom-mate
>network with mac and PC-Linux (Debian) can FTP to outer server without problem.
>
>Where should I set or re-write or comment out/in for it?
>
>Yukiko Takiguchi @ Syracuse, NY
>
>At 7:28 PM -0700 2/14/00, Jim Cole wrote:
>> 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
>
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