Re: odd behavior

Caspar Bothmer <[email protected]> Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:04:02 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.publicfile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

John White wrote:
> 
> 150 Making transfer connection...
> 
> And it hangs there.
> 
> Now, my guess is that this is a firewall issue, but I -am- able to
> connect, which makes me doubt that this is the problem.  Is there
> another component to the ftp connection that's getting filtered
> somehow?  Any thoughts?

Which ports did you redirect? ftp needs more than one port - 20 (called
ftp-data) and 21 (called ftp), both tcp.

Look at /etc/services (linux) or how else this might be called on your
type of machine.

It's pretty likely a firewall issue.

bye

caspar