From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 3 17:06:28 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81E1816A41B for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:06:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jgordeev@dir.bg) Received: from dir.bg (mail.dir.bg [194.145.63.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F2EC13C46E for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:06:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jgordeev@dir.bg) Received: from [87.126.152.39] (account jgordeev HELO [10.102.9.50]) by dir.bg (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 32195525 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:06:25 +0300 Message-ID: <46DC3F48.7080501@dir.bg> Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:07:20 +0300 From: Jordan Gordeev User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20070606 X-Accept-Language: bg, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <46DC1434.3090801@maa-net.net> In-Reply-To: <46DC1434.3090801@maa-net.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Weird FTP issue??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:06:28 -0000 Michaela wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if anyone can possibly explain or give their expertise > with this bizarre/weird issue if you will that I've been having while > using such commands as portsnap, portaudit, fetch, etc. > > First off, I'm running FreeBSD v6.1. I have three (Internet) servers > running the same FreeBSD version. However, one of the servers has been > giving me trouble and I can't decipher whether or not it's a FreeBSD > related issue or something else altogether. > > On this one server, whenever I try to use "portaudit", "portsnap", > "fetch", or whenever I try to upgrade ports and it needs to "fetch" the > updates the connections ALMOST always "time out". But what's weird is > that I don't have the issue on the other two FreeBSD servers when they > need to use the same commands. > > I can SSH to this (problem) server, ping to-from it, and everything > else. It's gotten to the point where I thought it was a FreeBSD > problem so I completely reformatted and installed the O/S. However, > it's STILL doing the same thing. Upon trying to install certain > distribution sets through FTP media, I'd get an error about it (FreeBSD) > not being able to get a connection with the remote FreeBSD server. > > After that, I even went as far as changing network cards and it's still > doing it. Using "netstat" while trying to use the commands shows that > it's sending a "SYN" flag to the remote server, but no connection is > ever established. > > I have all three servers plugged into the same router/firewall and have > done so for years with no problems. This is the first issue of its kind. > > I'd greatly appreciate any insight, help, explanation, or something. > This is getting really aggrevating. > > > THANK YOU in advance. > > > -- Michael Hi, Michael! Please, note that portsnap is not using FTP, but HTTP. The first thing to do, when a problem like this occurs, is to use tcpdump to capture a packet trace. Use tcpdump on the server and, if possible, on the router/firewall and show us the results, if you can't analyze them by yourself.