Only thing I can think of is FTP uses two ports rather than one - 20 and 
21. One for commands, one for data.

You might want to try passive-mode (I think the command is 'pasv'?), or 
checking if your iptables rules have both ports.

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Raymond Norton wrote:

> Searched google on this, but have not found an answer that applies here. I
> can login to my ftp server, but get "no route to host" when executing
> "ls". If I shutdown iptables, everything works as expected.
>
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> Raymond
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