ATT BroadBand Port Blocking

[gbburkhardt at aaahawk.com (Glenn Burkhardt)]

Thanks - good guess - but it fails for him with both MS Internet Explorer and 
the FTP Explorer client (both of which work from other sites to our server).

On Saturday 08 February 2003 07:54 am, Nathan Meyers wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 07:20:33AM -0500, Glenn Burkhardt wrote:
> > > Here are my home network setup:
> > >        ATT Broadband connection
> > >        RCN cable modem
> > >        LinkSys Router (Model BEFSR41)
> > >        RedHat Linux 7.2 (on Compaq Deskpro)
> >
> > I'd be interested to know if you can use FTP from your Linux box to the
> > outside through the Linksys router.  One of our staff can't get to our
> > FTP server from home through his Linksys router, although other folks
> > without a router can.  Our server terminates the connection, leaving this
> > error message in the logs:
> >
> > ftpd[31488]: getpeername (in.ftpd): Transport endpoint is not connected
>
> In a Google search, that message shows up in questions much more
> frequently than it does in answers :-(. But, for what it's worth, my wild
> guess is that your staff member should check that the FTP connection is
> passive. It is passive from browsers but, by default, is not from the
> standard ftp client.
>
> Nathan Meyers
> nmeyers at javalinux.net
>
> > It's the 'getpeername()' request that's failed.