From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 18:28:09 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4392A16A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:28:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from postal.esca.com (postal.esca.com [192.92.92.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6C7E43D45 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:28:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeff.stelzner@areva-td.com) Received: from yn01esk.esca.com [172.20.128.64] by postal.esca.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.14) id AFB84DC500C0; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:28:08 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 From: jeff.stelzner@areva-td.com Message-ID: Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:20:35 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: ftpd - 421 Service not available X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:28:09 -0000 Hi: I have a freebsd-4.8-release box that recently crashed due to hardware [fan] failures after being up for 18 months. It runs the stock ftpd server out of inetd. - It does *not* use ftpchroot - It is *not* setup as an anonymous ftp server When the system came back up, remote connections to the ftp server result in: $ ftp nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn 421 Service not available, Remote server has closed the connection Connections from the box to itself work fine: $ ftp localhost Connected to localhost.esca.com. 220 somehost.some.domain FTP server (Version xxx) ready. Here are the troubleshooting steps I have followed thus far [it is in a location with no remote access, so I'm talking a technician through this]: - Verified default inetd entry invokes '/usr/libexec/ftpd -l' [since it works locally this should be OK] - Disabled ipfilter firewall - Verified that default /etc/hosts.allow contained 'ALL : ALL : allow' as the initial line [also edited the file to contain only this line, to no effect] - Verified that /etc/hosts contains correct address/hostname entry for the system, matching corresponding into in /etc/rc.conf. The box does *not* use DNS [lookups disabled]. So I'm wondering what types of things would cause remote connections to give a 421. Googling and looking at the archives for this list point to ftpchroot problems as the typical issue. Not here. Thanks for any tips you can offer - Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeff Stelzner ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "spukhafte Fernwirkungen" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------