Mark Schonbach on Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:19:25 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] redhat 7.0 and wu-ftpd


Most likely it means that you are not running identd, or that you have it
blocked by a firewall (either ipchains/iptables), or something further
upstream.  Type
netstat -na | grep "tcp.*LISTEN"
and see if it says something is listening on port 113.

[pts/3] [1:10pm] [mark@helios]
[~] > netstat -na | grep "tcp.*LISTEN"
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN

in my case, only port 22 is being listened on (sshd).

If you are not listening on port 113, you need to start identd (most
likely from xinitd).

If you ARE listening on port 113, try checking your firewall scripts to
see if you are blocking requests.  I've not used Redhat 7.1 or xinitd, but
you may want to try their suggestion of disabling auth as well.

Lastly, make sure that the IP address you are coming from resolves to a
hostname.  Type
nslookup xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
to check.  If not, add a "fake" entry to /etc/hosts on ftp server.

If you still need help, reply back with the output of netstat -na | grep "tcp.*LISTEN"
and your firewall scripts, and I'll try to help your further.

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Michael Whitman wrote:

> On my RH7.0 machine the ftp server takes along tome to connect, then runs fine.
> I found this on http://www.wu-ftpd.org/wu-ftpd-faq.html#QA83 but i am not
> sure what it tells me to do.  Anyone experience this problem?
>
> "Logins to the ftp server take a long time, after that things run smooth
> Possible causes: IDENT (RFC931) lookup is enabled in wu-ftpd. This has a
> timeout of 10 seconds. If the protocol (port 113) gets blocked by a
> firewall or suchlike, it will wait for timeout. If it is 30 seconds and you
> are using redhat 7.x with xinetd, disable AUTH in inetd as well. Any other
> time period: DNS is broken for the IP address the connection is coming from. "


Mark Schonbach, NetRealities
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