Re: setting up vsftpd

[<briand@aracnet.com>]

On Sat, 04 Jul 2015 13:55:36 +1000
Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 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 1
> >
> > i 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 -altp
> 
> to 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.
> 

well this is really screwy.

i changed the vsftpd.conf file to :

listen=YES
#listen_ipv6=YES

so, i commented out the listen_ipv6

and now it works !  what's extremely confusing is that machine2 is running with listen=NO and ipv6 yes and it works just fine!

??

i then tried modifying the config file to listen =NO but leaving ipv6 commented, and it doesn't work that way.

i have no idea where to go from here.

The only outstanding difference i can think of is that machine1 is i386 and machine2 is amd64



Brian