I am running debian slink, and once upon a time I believe that I was able to transfer files via ftp but, alas, no longer. Unfortunately, I don't recall what changed (it was a while ago, and I didn't deal with it right away), so now I'm trying to debug the situation from where I am now.
I dial in to a shell account on a SunOS computer and connect to the net via dip + cslip. I'm able to use telnet and I can access files using http, but I can't use ftp. (The existence of alternative ways of moving files around is why I never got around to dealing with this before.) When I start ftp, I'm able to open a connection to the remote site just fine and I appear to be able to cd, but when I try to ls or get or put any file, it just hangs and nothing is transferred. I am able to login (both to a site where I have an account and to anonymous sites like metalab or ftp.debian.org), and I get the login messages, but I can't transfer files or get a directory listing. I put an example at the bottom of this message, but I fear it's not particularly informative. I'm not sure where to start trying to debug this problem. "RTFM" is a welcome response provided you tell me where in what FM to R. Or else if someone could tell me what to look at to try to find out the source of the problem, I'd be very appreciative. Undoubtedly more information is needed to find the source of the problem, but I'm not sure what information to provide. If it matters, I'm using 2.0.36 kernel that I compiled on this Pentium Pro box; the problem also existed when I was using the stock slink 2.0.36 kernel. Thanks very much for your assistance. --Miguel Sample ftp session: $ ftp -v ftp> open thecity.sfsu.edu Connected to thecity.sfsu.edu. 220 thecity.sfsu.edu FTP server (Version wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-18](1) Thu Aug 13 12:11:37 PDT 1998) ready. Name (thecity.sfsu.edu:maw): mwooding 331 Password required for mwooding. Password: 230 User mwooding logged in. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> get test local: test remote: test 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for test (288 bytes). [ I hit ^C here. ] receive aborted waiting for remote to finish abort 226 Transfer complete. 225 ABOR command successful. ftp> put local.test local: local.test remote: local.test 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for local.test. [ ^C again ] send aborted waiting for remote to finish abort 226 Transfer complete. ftp> ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. [ and yet again ] receive aborted waiting for remote to finish abort 226 Transfer complete. 225 ABOR command successful. ftp> cd bin 250 CWD command successful. ftp> bye 221 Goodbye.
