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Re: FTP active getting blocked



On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 11:22:30PM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote:
> 
> My website host just recently changed its FTP server from Passive to
> Active.
> 
> I thought that it would be easy to make the switch on the client side,
> but I've run into problems.  At first I thought it was my firewall that
> was stopping incoming data, but I temporarily disabled the firewall and
> still can't get incoming FTP data.

Are you behind a NAT'ing/MASQ'ing gateway?  If you're using iptables,
you need the ipt_nat_ftp and ipt_conntrack_ftp modules loaded.

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Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org>				http://ertius.org/

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