On 6/18/03 3:21 PM, the mind of "Rigler, Steve" wrote: > Recently (this week) I ran into a similar issue. It appears as if the login > banner on the ftp servers was confusing our firewall into dropping ftp > connections. > > Running snoop on the clients and servers didn't reveal much except that the > server saw 8 packets transmitted/received during the session whereas the > client only saw 6. The problem was easily reproduceable with any ftp client > (even just by telnetting to port 21). > > I got around the problem by editing the /etc/issue on the ftp servers. The > file had a large number of consecutive spaces (to make a nice, pretty box > of #'s). Once the spaces were removed connections started working again. > > I don't know how much control you have over the host you're trying to ftp > into, but maybe you can ask them to drop the "/etc/issue" file on their > server and see if that resolves the problem (or switch to a ftpd daemon that > isn't doesn't display it).
Well, we never even get that far. By banner, I guess I really meant 'greeting'. We can't even get to the login phase. So, instead of getting the greeting, we just get the 'closed' message. Weird, weird, weird. So, no, I have no control over the ftp server. It a machine outside of my network altogether. -- Jeff Stillwall -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
