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

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