Re: Re: Wackamole and ProFTPd on FreeBSD

Eric L. Anderson wrote:

>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?
>>    
>>
Are you running proftpd stand alone or from inetd?  If you are running 
it standalone, start it, add 192.168.0.20, then try passive FTP.  It 
maybe that proftpd notes the lack of IP at startup and then refuses to 
"relearn" that the IP addres sis no available locally on the box.

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