True. But what, then, is keeping it from listening? For instance, I can pftp from one machine to another, but when I ftp, it connects then hangs. The only difference between them is passive ftp remains on port 21 while standard (active) ftp makes a connection then transitions to an arbitrary high port. The high ports are where I'm having problems.
--Brad On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Greg Woods wrote: > "Connection refused" does not mean the port is blocked, it means nothing > is listening on that port, which you would expect from an arbitrary high > numbered port, since most services listen on well known lower numbered > ports. If a connection is denied by tcpd (hosts.deny) then you don't get > "connection refused", you get something like "connection closed by > foreign host", i.e. the connection is actually made but then immediately > dropped. > > --Greg >
