Re: Problem with wu-ftpd....

["Jens B. Jorgensen" <jjorgens@bdsinc.com>]

Sam Ockman wrote:
> 
> Message from Jens B. Jorgensen (jjorgens@bdsinc.com):
> > Sam Ockman wrote:
> > >
> > > At work I sit behind a firewall.  The firewall lets me out for whatever I
> > > want, but for some reason, there is a conflict with the wu-ftpd
> > > distributed with Debian and my firewall.  Wu-ftpd sits there for several
> > > minutes before it times out and actually connects...it seems like I can't
> > > connect at all to master.debian.org from behind the firewall, although
> > > maybe it just takes a few minutes more.
> > >
> > > It occurs to me that maybe wu-ftpd is waiting for my name to be sent,
> > > because it knows my name when I go there and am not behind a
> > > firewall....who feeds this info to it if I don't have identd running?  Is
> > > that my client?  Is this not the problem?
> > >
> > > How can I get wu-ftpd to give me a quicker response?
> > >
> > > I'm convinced that this is a Debian/wu-ftpd problem...
> > >
> > > I can get into ftp.debian.org fine from my firewall, as well as
> > > ftp.redhat.com, and all other ftp sites I've ever tried...but the two
> > > Debian machines at home take several minutes to let me in, and
> > > master.debian.org won't let me in at all, or maybe I just haven't waited
> > > long enough for it to timeout.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Sam
> > >
> >
> > Perhaps you can turn off ident checking in wu-ftpd. ident can't really
> > go "through" the firewall back to you. If your firewall is SOCKS,
> > SOCKS can supply ident service. Unfortunately you have to stop regular
> > ident service for this to work--I wish there was a better way.
> 
> Okay, I'd love to do this....but how?  I read all the documentation and
> couldn't find anything....
> 

I'm not sure which thing you meant. If you mean turn off ident in
wu-ftpd, I don't know 'cause I don't use wu-ftpd. If you mean how
to turn off ident responses in your firewall machine, it goes like
this:

There'll be a line in /etc/services like this:

auth            113/tcp         authentication tap ident

You need to comment it out like so:

#auth            113/tcp         authentication tap ident

And either 'kill -HUP' or restart inetd. 

-- 
Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com


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