On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 04:47:55PM -0300, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote > Hi there, > > Lately I've been facing a strange and very annoying problem... When > I try to do FTP from a site, it will almost surely drop my connection > out when I try to build a data connection (either through a 'get', > 'retr' or just a harmless 'dir') with a message like: > > ftp> dir > 200 PORT command successful. > 425 Can't build data connection: Connection refused > > On other systems I've had a 'address already in use' or something, so I > felt it could have to do with the IP Masquerading... I can't say for > sure if it started just after we set our Linux router to do IP > Masquerading or not, but I feel it was 'almost at the same time', so > maybe I've just overlooked something when I did that... HTTP connections > AND apt-get run just fine, though... > > Any ideas?? >
Correctly masquerading FTP sessions requires a special module, ip_masq_ftp in 2.2 version kernels; Do you have this module loaded (or built-in to the kernel)? John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
