Re: FTP passive not working

[Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>]

On Tuesday 13 April 2004 6:41 pm, Michael Gale wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am having trouble getting a FTP connection to work in passive mode from
> behind a firewall.
>
> On the FTP server I have two IP's one used for internal connections and one
> used for external connections. The external one is .36 .. so in the
> proftpd.conf file I used the following:

<snip...>

> So when I try passive my client tried to connect to the external IP of the
> firewall on a port > 1024.

1. Where is the client, which is connecting to the external address?

2. Do passive connections to this server work from your LAN, not going through 
the firewall?

3. Do passive connections to external servers, from clients on your LAN, work 
through the firewall?

Regards,

Antony.

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