briand@aracnet.com writes:
just to recap. machine 1 :firewall. i can ftp into machine 2 machine 2: no firewall. i cannot ftp into machine 1i tried the iptables commands as you explained above, and still get connection refused.here's the really interesting part.when logged in on machine 1. ftp localhost: works ftp machine1: connection refused
In my experience, "connection refused" can indicate that there's nothing actually listening on the port to which one is trying to connect. Perhaps try running netstat(8) on machine1, e.g.:
$ netstat -altpto check that vsftpd is indeed listening on the relevant port(s). If it's not, check vsftpd logs to see whether it produced any errors or warning on startup, and check your vsftpd configuration accordingly.
Alexis.