[plug] Problem with gFTP

[Bret Busby]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Keith Bawden wrote:

>
>> When I did "man ftp", and looked at the options, and then used "ftp -v" to
>> connect with one of my web sites, and then ran the command status, the
>> response did not include indication of whether active or passive, file
>> transfer was set.
>
> During the initial connection did you see the word PASV. If so then
> you are using passive mode. You can force the use of passive mode -
> "ftp -p" . If it fails with -p then you know the problem is with using
> passive mode.
>
>

Thanks for that.

I did it using the ftp command line utility, with the switches -pv and 
then with -v, on another of my web sites, with the same ISP hosting the 
web site, and the results clearly showed that the issue is with the 
passive mode.

The ISP uses PLESK, and their "PLESK specialist" advised them that 
passive mode is allowed, and that no such problem should be occurring. 
The "PLESK specialist suggested that they check their "nat config", to 
ensure that the problem does not lie there.

I emailed the output of the "ftp -pv" and the "ftp -v" sessions to the 
ISP, as it appears to me, that the problem lies at their end.

Now, I wait and see...

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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