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>From: "Neilley, Peter" <address@hidden> >Organization: WSI Corportation >Keywords: 200102051425.f15EPsX03731 FTP access Peter, >Thanks Tom. > >I'm running into more fundamental problems where the Unidata ftp >server won't even let me connect. e.g.> > >> ftp ftp.unidata.ucar.edu >Connect to ftp.unidata.ucar.edu >421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection. > >I've also tried pftp (passive-mode ftp) incase the firewall was the issue. This comment showed me that I really didn't understand the security setup here. One quick comment, however: we are not behind the UCAR security perimeter, so using a passive-mode FTP is not needed. >If I try to click one of Unidata's ftp links from one of the Unidata >web pages from within a browser I get: > > FTP Error > Could not login to FTP server OK. >I have no problem contacting other UCAR ftp servers (e.g. ftp.rap.ucar.edu >or ncardata.ucar.edu), just the unidata ftp server. > >Hmmmm..... > >Anyway, I back-doored the files by transferring it to RAP first and >then to WSI.... but it would be nice to figure out this problem. Do >your FTP logs indicate and connections from WSI (.wsi.com, .wsicorp.com)? I got together with Mike Schmidt, our system administrator, and learned more about how we have security setup for FTP. Our setup requires that we can do a forward and reverse name lookup for hosts attempting to connect. It seems that the host that you were coming in from is not recognized by a DNS server. Someone else from WSI, however, has successfully FTPed to ftp.unidata.ucar.edu in the past several days: >From laraine:/var/adm/tcpd.log >Feb 2 08:34:13 laraine.unidata.ucar.edu wuftpd[3296]: connect from >wsi-200-156.wsi.com >Feb 5 09:49:46 laraine.unidata.ucar.edu wuftpd[10574]: warning: can't verify >hostname: gethostbyname(wsi-204-185.wsi.com) failed nslookup wsi-200-156.wsi.com Server: laraine.unidata.ucar.edu Address: 128.117.140.62 Non-authoritative answer: Name: wsi-200-156.wsi.com Address: 4.36.200.156 nslookup wsi-204-185.wsi.com Server: laraine.unidata.ucar.edu Address: 128.117.140.62 *** laraine.unidata.ucar.edu can't find wsi-204-185.wsi.com:Non-existent host/domain The nslookup output shows that wsi-200-156.wsi.com is a name that one can do a lookup on while wsi-204-185.wsi.com is not. It is likely that the wsi-204-185.wsi.com is newer and has not yet been added to the DNS server tables at WSI (or elsewhere). So, you will have to use a different machine for your FTPs until wsi-204-185.wsi.com is recognized. I hope that this helps... Tom