At 03:09 PM 6/18/03 -0700, Aaron Grewell wrote:
There may be a firewall module that needs to be loaded in order to correctly handle ftp. Unfortunately that system is so old that I no longer remember what said module would be called. Ah, but Google remembers.
http://www.linux.net.nz/lists/NZLUG/2000/06/0086.html
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 03:01 pm, Jason Joines wrote: > I inherited (old admin left, boss said "this is yours") a RH 6.2 > server that runs a web application via apache and mysql. It generates a > link that points to an ftp URL to retrieve spreadsheets. The URL is > something like ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/filename.xls. I had put up an > ipchains firewall on the box and opened port 21, expecting that I might > also have to open port 20. I tested by retrieving a file via ftp from > the command line on my SuSE desktop system. > Then I got reports that the users couldn't retrieve the files. The > logs showed rejections from the user's machines to a variety of > arbitrary high tcp ports. The were not replies but initiated > connections as I have allowed replies via: > > $ipchains -A input -s $anyhost -d $thishost 1024:65535 -p tcp -i eth0 ! > -y -j ACCEPT > > The users have IE x.x on win2k. I had one of them try to retrieve a > file via the win2k command line and that worked just fine. So, I tried > Mozilla 1.4rc1 on my SuSE box. Then I had the same problem as the users > and the log showed rejections from my box to arbitrary high tcp ports on > the server. > > It looks like the ftp in the browser's is doing something odd. The > server is running wu-ftpd 2.60. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Jason Joines > =========== > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> > http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
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