Re: Wackamole and ProFTPd on FreeBSD

Never saw any response to this so I thought I might try again...

Any one have any insight into this issue?

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 02:09:27PM -0500, Eric L. Anderson wrote:
> Our organization is using wackamole to provide high-availability ISP
> services like SMTP, POP, IMAP and FTP all hosted on FreeBSD 5.3. All
> of the mail services work great in a wackamoled environment using
> Postfix and Courier-Imap and Pop. We then started work on FTP using
> ProFTPD. Unfortunately, ProFTPD is not working in the wackamoled
> environment.
> 
> Here is what happens. If I connect to an IP being managed by
> Wackamole, I can get logged in but passive mode fails and ProFTPD
> drops the connection. ProFTPD works just fine if I connect to the
> hosts IP. Here are the log snippets from ProFTPD for this failure:
> 
> proftpd: Failed binding to 192.168.0.20, port 0: Can't assign requested address
> proftpd: Check the ServerType directive to ensure you are configured correctly.
> 
> The odd thing is ProFTPD works just fine if the IP is manually enabled
> on the system as follows:
> 
> 	 ifconfig bge0 alias 192.168.0.20 netmask 255.255.255.255
> 
> Then ProFTPD works just fine. 
> 
> What is the difference in how wackamole is enabling the IP versus how
> ifconfig is doing it?
> 
> -- 
> Eric L. Anderson
> [email protected]

-- 
Eric L. Anderson
[email protected]