>
> 20 is 'not' open from here

It's been a few decades since I got rid of FTP but from memory it's only
listened to once port 21 has been connected to and/or authenticated and
there is a request to use it.

On Wed, 13 May 2026 at 09:31, Vince Skahan <[email protected]> wrote:

> 20 is 'not' open from here, but it's been so many years since I had to use
> ftp that I'm uncertain if it's needed or not.
>
> I see 22 (ssh) is open, so I'd still recommend trying to use the RSYNC
> uploader. Hey - looks like there's a wiki article on how to do that.  That
> wiki has a lot of stuff if you try to look for howtos there.
> https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/rsync-setup
>
> (big fan of the guy who wrote that page - big fan!)
>
>
> On Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 4:12:59 PM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Didn't seem to help
>>
>> pi@rpi5trixie:~ $ sudo ufw status
>> Status: active
>>
>> To                         Action      From
>> --                         ------      ----
>> 22/tcp                     ALLOW       Anywhere
>> OpenSSH                    ALLOW       Anywhere
>> 21                         ALLOW       Anywhere
>> 21/tcp                     ALLOW       Anywhere
>> 20/tcp                     ALLOW       Anywhere
>>
>> 22/tcp (v6)                ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)
>> OpenSSH (v6)               ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)
>> 21 (v6)                    ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)
>> 21/tcp (v6)                ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)
>> 20/tcp (v6)                ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 6:41:25 PM UTC-4 Vince Skahan wrote:
>>
>>> Try opening port 20 as a final test.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 3:31:45 PM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, so much for godaddy. They said their server checked out but they
>>>> don't help with Linux problems. Not sure where to go. grattans.org
>>>> should work with http:// no "https"
>>>>
>>>> I ran the following which might help:
>>>>
>>>> pi@rpi5trixie:~ $ sudo ufw status
>>>> Status: active
>>>>
>>>> To                         Action      From
>>>> --                         ------      ----
>>>> 22/tcp                     ALLOW       Anywhere
>>>> OpenSSH                    ALLOW       Anywhere
>>>> 21                         ALLOW       Anywhere
>>>> 21/tcp                     ALLOW       Anywhere
>>>> 22/tcp (v6)                ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)
>>>> OpenSSH (v6)               ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)
>>>> 21 (v6)                    ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)
>>>> 21/tcp (v6)                ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)
>>>>
>>>> pi@rpi5trixie:~ $ nmap localhost -p 21
>>>> Starting Nmap 7.95 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2026-05-12 18:22 EDT
>>>> Nmap scan report for localhost (127.0.0.1)
>>>> Host is up (0.00012s latency).
>>>> Other addresses for localhost (not scanned): ::1
>>>>
>>>> PORT   STATE  SERVICE
>>>> 21/tcp closed ftp
>>>>
>>>> Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.04 seconds
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 4:10:37 PM UTC-4 Jimi Lawson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Your website https://www.grattans.org/ appears to be unreachable by
>>>>> browser, (Chrome, Firefox & Opera)
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Jimi
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tuesday, 12 May 2026 at 20:08:43 UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> grattans.org is my web site hosted by godaddy. My weewx RPI5
>>>>>> uploaded the public_html files every 15 minutes. I'm going to call 
>>>>>> godaddy
>>>>>> to see if they are blocking something. This has been working fine for 
>>>>>> over
>>>>>> ten years.
>>>>>> I'll get back once I talk with them.  Thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 2:41:33 PM UTC-4 Vince Skahan wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You're going to have to eventually describe your setup enough for
>>>>>>> folks to help.  What is 'grattans.org' ?  Are you hosted somewhere
>>>>>>> on Internet ?  Where/by-whom ?  Did your provider start blocking ftp ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Something ''there' is amiss.  It's your ftp server side setup
>>>>>>> definitely.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:11:46 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks for the reply, Karen. My Inet connection is ok and I can
>>>>>>>> reach my site grattans.org using filezilla from other computers on
>>>>>>>> my local network. From the weewx server I can ping grattans.org
>>>>>>>> and I can use dig grattans.org to get the IP address. However on
>>>>>>>> the weewx server when I enter FTP [email protected] it only
>>>>>>>> hangs. Filezilla on the weewx server says it can't connect even though 
>>>>>>>> it
>>>>>>>> connects from the other computers on the LAN. I'm not a programmer and
>>>>>>>> can"t figure what is happening here.  Weewx is working correctly 
>>>>>>>> except for
>>>>>>>> FTP. Thanks
>>>>>>>> Bob
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 12:19:02 PM UTC-4 Karen K wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The error message states "timeout". It happens during connection
>>>>>>>>> initiation. So some possible reasons come into mind:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>    - Internet access broken (Can you connect to servers in the
>>>>>>>>>    Internet?)
>>>>>>>>>    - DNS resolving broken (You can connect to servers by IP but
>>>>>>>>>    not by name.)
>>>>>>>>>    - passive/active FTP mode issues
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> First I would try to check the Internet connection. On the console
>>>>>>>>> you could enter "ping www.ibm.com". You should get answers from
>>>>>>>>> them. Then you can try the ftp command. If it is not there, you
>>>>>>>>> can install it. Try then "ftp your.webserver.com". Does that
>>>>>>>>> work? If not, it is not a WeeWX but a system problem.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> [email protected] schrieb am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2026 um 18:01:25
>>>>>>>>> UTC+2:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I am running:  weewx 5.3.1 on a Raspberry Pi 5 with Raspbian
>>>>>>>>>> linux (Debian 13.x: Trixie), and Python version: 3.13.5.
>>>>>>>>>> All was good but an OS update last night must have caused an FTP
>>>>>>>>>> problem, maybe with a new version of python (?). Error from log file 
>>>>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>>>>> attached.
>>>>>>>>>> Davis VP2+ is running well but stopped FTPing to my website.
>>>>>>>>>> Can anyone help with what is happening here?  Thanks in advance.
>>>>>>>>>> I can run with debug if needed.
>>>>>>>>>> Bob
>>>>>>>>>> grattans.org/wx
>>>>>>>>>>
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