If you are using ProFTP- there are a few issues to look at. First, it trys to do an IDENT lookup on connections. It also will try to do a reverse DNS lookup, if there is no entry for the IP connecting, it may hang for a while. You can turn this off by adding these line to your proftpd.conf file: IdentLookups off UseReverseDNS off If you are trying to port forward through a firewall, you need to forward more than just port 21 if you want to use some ftp clients. The problem is port 21 is only the control port, and the file transfer and stuff happens on other negotiated ports, which are not the same for each session. ProFTPd allows you to specify which ports to try and use, and allows it to "masquerade" as a different IP address (just the advertising part of things) Add lines like this: MasqueradeAddress out.side.ip.address PassivePorts 60000 65535 Then forward (in addition to 21) ports 60000-65535 to the server, and all should be well. On Wednesday 05 September 2001 09:32 am, you wrote: > When I FTP to my Linux server (running proftpd) which is outside our > network it takes a long time to connect...some things happen at normal > speed but I keep getting these messages: > > 227 Entering Passive Mode (209,173,192,110,8,71). > > And it seems to hang for a few minutes before. Sometimes it takes so > long to connect it times out and disconnects me before it finishes > connecting. I can get to other ftp sites ok (but apparently only > non-Linux ones) and I can get to this server from home just fine. > > Any ideas on what I could look into? Maybe a conflict between the port > that ftp is using and the firewall? Unfortunately our Net Admin has > very little knowledge of firewalls and neither do I. > > Brady > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Jay Kline list at slushpupie.com http://www.slushpupie.com -- Remark of Dr. Baldwin's concerning upstarts: We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"