Re: FTP and Atlantic Broadband filter

[Tony Placilla <anthony_placilla () suth com>]

wymerzp () sbu edu wrote:
> I have a question: I am running my own server out of my house just for fun. I wanted to set up an ftp server.I am 
> running SUSE 10.2 using vsftpd for my ftp server. I set it up and everything is fine... I can connect to localhost 
> and it works. When I connect from the outside it simply hangs and when I do an nmap it comes back as being filtered 
> (as opposed to open). So... do you guys think this is a filter done by Atl BB and if it is, how can I get around 
> this? I tried using netcat to listen on another port and redirect this to localhost on port 21, but no dice. Any help 
> will be appreciated!
> Peace,
> Zach


from a *NIX box on the outside do:

tracepath your.ftp.server/21

see what it returns.

Quite possibly you've got IPtables on the SuSE box not set to allow
incoming FTP


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Tony Placilla, RHCT, GSEC
anthony_placilla () suth com


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