Re: Blocked high ports

[Greg Woods <gswoods@dimensional.com>]

Bradley M Alexander wrote:
> 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.

Sounds like you are running FTP from behind a firewall. Try running
"tcpdump" to see if
packets are actually coming in and getting dropped, or getting dropped
somewhere before
they ever get to your system.

--Greg