[ale] Why can't I ftp anywhere

Michael Hirsch mhirsch at nubridges.com
Fri Sep 13 14:17:43 EDT 2002


On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 13:55, Ryan wrote:
> Are you using an active or passive FTP client?

It defaults to passive, but I've tried it both ways.

Anyway, my problem is that I can't ever log in.  I thought that the
active/passive problem would show up when I tried ot download.

--Michael

> Thanks,
> Ryan
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 12:24, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> > I've gotten increasingly frustrated that I can't ftp anywhere.  In
> > particular, non of the 4 US mirrors of kde.org will let me in.  The
> > universality of the problem leads me to believe that my site has
> > something wrong with it.
> > 
> > I used to think it was reverse DNS not working, but that isn't it since
> > I've verified that reverse DNS does work on our NAT address.
> > 
> > Any other ideas?  I vaguely recall something about identd being a
> > possible issue.
> > 
> > --Michael
> > 
> > 
> > 
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