On May 01 16:16, "Andy Grundman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Subject: Re: Is there a problem with lftp - proftpd?? > > George, > > It looks like you need to use passive FTP because your firewall is not > properly handling a standard FTP connection. In a standard FTP connection > the server connects back to your computer (the "PORT 10,69,13,203,147,82" > command tells it where to connect), but in your case 10.x.x.x is not a > public IP range so the server is unable to connect to you. Put the > following line in your ~/.lftp/rc or enter it within lftp before you connect > to the server. > > set ftp:passive-mode on > > Passive mode will reverse the process and the server will tell you where to > connect for the data connection. > > Andy
Andy was the first (and the clearest) person to suggest this. It worked! Funny thing is that I had manually turned passive-mode off in my .lftp/rc file, but I can't remember why? Thanks for all the help! -- ge
