Hi Allan,

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, [email protected] wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > I have installed the VSFTP service on my Linux boss running SUSE linux 
> > 10.2,
> 
> Wow, you're lucky to have Linux as your boss :)

Forgot to have the extra privilege of having root on him to install 
whatever you want :)

> When does the server start to "seem to be dropping my traffic"? when i try
> connecting, see logs below
> ;
> rror:        Unable to connect!
> Status:        Waiting to retry... (2 retries left)
> Status:        Connecting to ftp.xx.com
> Error:        Unable to connect!
> Status:        Waiting to retry... (1 retry left)
> Status:        Connecting to ftp.xx.com
> Error:        Unable to connect!
> 
> If you are able to log in, try changing FTP mode to active or passive to
> see if either one works better? am not able to go in

Looks like a firewall or address binding problem. Please do this:

> Please list all your INPUT firewall rules on the server, with:
> 
>  iptables -L -nv INPUT

And please paste the contents of /etc/xinetd.d/vsftpd (or similar), and 
the "listen" and "listen_address" values in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf.

Cheers, Chris.
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