[ale] Why can't I ftp anywhere

[Ryan]

The data channel needs to be setup before any output will
return. Can you login at all? If you can, and you need
to debug a session, tcpdump and netcat are your friends.

- Ryan

On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 14:17, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> 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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