Re: odd behavior

John White <[email protected]> Mon, 25 Mar 2002 01:57:23 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.publicfile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 10:04:02AM +0100, Caspar Bothmer wrote:
> 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.

I had port 21 redirected, but not port 20.  However, routing port 20
to the publicfile server doesn't actually change to problem.

--
John White