On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:37:07AM +0400, Alex V. Toropov wrote: | Hi all, | | I have an FTP & WWW-server behind my firewall. | This firewall allow any tcp trafic from/to ports 21 and 80 of this | machine. WWW-server works fine, but connection to FTP-server | hangs after user authentification (on first LIST request from client). | | As far as I know FTP needs some other port for DATA connection. | I've tried to open port 20 on firewall as well, but it dosn't solve | problems. | | Please tell me at what point I'm wrong? | | best Regards, Alex | | PS My ftp server is ftp.ct.spb.ru - if someone would like to examine | problems.
Indeed your ftp service hangs. Yes, ftp uses port 20/21 usually. Try setting passive mode on. Here's what I got after turning on debug, and passive. Look familiar? ftp> passive Passive mode on. ftp> ls ftp: setsockopt (ignored): Permission denied ---> PASV 227 Entering Passive Mode (195,190,104,4,8,127) ---> LIST 125 Using existing ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls (1155 bytes). total 111814 drwxrw-rw- 1 root root 0 May 7 15:11 . drwxrw-rw- 1 root root 0 May 7 15:11 .. dr-x-w---- 1 root root 512 Sep 1 11:56 drivers drwxrw-rw- 1 root root 0 Sep 10 1998 bin drwxrw-rw- 1 root root 0 Aug 30 15:41 pub drwxrw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jun 3 00:19 upload drwxrw-rw- 1 root root 0 Apr 28 1998 Eltis -rwxrw-rw- 1 root root 624073 Dec 1 1998 ad.zip -rwxrw-rw- 1 root root 229376 Feb 7 1996 cw3220.dll -rwxrw-rw- 1 root root 647168 Jan 27 20:14 EDialer_142.EXE -rwxrw-rw- 1 root root 53884704 Dec 1 1998 fonts.zip -rwxrw-rw- 1 root root 342039 Jun 3 1997 FTPX.EX_ -rwxrw-rw- 1 root root 197934 Mar 3 1997 FTPX.HL_ -rwxrw-rw- 1 root root 18469 Feb 20 1997 FTPXEXT.DL_ -rwxrw-rw- 1 root root 6719 Feb 7 1996 INETWH16.DL_ -rwxrw-rw- 1 root root 19894 Oct 21 1995 INETWH32.DL_ -rwxrw-rw- 1 root root 12452 Jun 3 1997 README.TXT -rwxrw-rw- 1 root root 3257 Oct 13 1995 SETBROWS.EX_ -rwxrw-rw- 1 root root 248320 Feb 20 1997 SETUP.EXE -rwxrw-rw- 1 root root 1005847 Nov 16 1994 WINSENSE.ZIP 226 Transfer complete. 1155 bytes in 0.02 sec. (56.396 Kb/s) -- ___ ___ __ _ _ __ |_ ) / -_) _` | ' \ / / \___\__, |_|_|_/___| |___/