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DISCUSSION Alan Bort 2 participants 3 messages Jun 20, 2003 – Jun 21, 2003

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I tried to send this mail as HTML, but the list rejected it... :-(

that's why the lines are cutted....

[SNIP] <--- the whole part about the Apache.

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Can whatever directory and file gets accessed via the URL you are using be executed (the directory) and read (the file) by the userid that apache

runs as?
Of course. All files and the DocumentRoot are RWX for all users, and belong to user:group alan:alan

That was the problem... aparently the user was not properly created... I changed it now to an existing user and everything seems to work fine... THANKS A LOT!!

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FTP: I can't have access to anyone of the machines

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FTP. I am
having some troubles with the config... what should I configuree again... what are the files that I should edit. When trying to connect it just says conection refused.. nothing else. I'm having troubles with this. I use xinet.d's pro-ftpd.

"Connection Refused" most likely means that nothing is listening on the

ftp

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port. Or it could mean that the particular IP addresses you are

connecting

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from are disallowed. Or, just barely possible, you could have a firewall rule in place that blocks access.

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But the daemon is running (at least it should) I'll check when I get home.

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I surmise that you run ftp the usual way, through inetd (in your case, xinetd).

Yes. I do.

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Use "netstat -l" to verify that something is listening on port 21.

I'm not at home right now. But I will ASAP.

It does not show it. I see the problem now... but how do I solve it???

Thanks.

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Check the xinetd configuration file to make sure it is listening on that

port.
HOW? I have in /etc/xinetd.d/pro-ftpd.conf the line disable=no. That should be enough... right?

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Check hosts.allow and hosts.deny to see if they interfere with access.

Nothing wrong there.

In fact NOTHING there at all. They are blank.

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Check your firewall ruleset (probably with "iptables -nvL", if you run a 2.4.x kernel) to see if there are any rules that DENY access.

I tried #service iptables stop and still didn't work.

Ok... this is going to be long...

here is the output of iptables -nvL

[root@ciccio-net /etc]# iptables -nvL
Chain INPUT (policy DROP 0 packets, 0 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source
destination

    0     0 DROP       all  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          state INVALID
    4   176 ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       192.168.23.114      
0.0.0.0/0
18034 2264K ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       192.168.23.0/24     
0.0.0.0/0
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       10.129.2.155        
0.0.0.0/0
    3   232 ICMPACCEPT  icmp --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0
   10   600 REJECT     tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:113 reject-with tcp-reset
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:22
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:25
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:53
    0     0 ACCEPT     udp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          udp dpt:53
   17  4597 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:80
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:443
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:110
334K  501M ACCEPT     all  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          state ESTABLISHED
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpts:1024:65535 state RELATED
    0     0 ACCEPT     udp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          udp dpts:1024:65535 state RELATED
    0     0 DROP       all  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          state INVALID
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       192.168.23.114      
0.0.0.0/0
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       192.168.23.0/24     
0.0.0.0/0
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       10.129.2.155        
0.0.0.0/0
    0     0 ICMPACCEPT  icmp --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0
    0     0 REJECT     tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:113 reject-with tcp-reset
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:20
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:21
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:22
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:25
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:53
    0     0 ACCEPT     udp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          udp dpt:53
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:80
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:443
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:110
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          state ESTABLISHED
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpts:1024:65535 state RELATED
    0     0 ACCEPT     udp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0           

0.0.0.0/0 udp dpts:1024:65535 state RELATED

Chain FORWARD (policy DROP 0 packets, 0 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source
destination
86306 36M ACCEPT all -- !eth1 * 0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0
73152 20M ACCEPT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0 state RELATED,ESTABLISHED

    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  !eth1  *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0           

0.0.0.0/0 state RELATED,ESTABLISHED

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 794155 packets, 49858689 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source
destination

Chain ICMPACCEPT (2 references)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source
destination

    0     0 ACCEPT     icmp --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          icmp type 0
    0     0 ACCEPT     icmp --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          icmp type 3
    0     0 ACCEPT     icmp --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          icmp type 0
    0     0 ACCEPT     icmp --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0           

0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 3

Chain TCPACCEPT (16 references)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source
destination

    5   240 ACCEPT     tcp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          tcp flags:0x0216/0x022 limit: avg 5/sec burst 10
   12  4357 ACCEPT     tcp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          tcp flags:!0x0216/0x022
    0     0 ACCEPT     tcp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0          tcp flags:0x0216/0x022 limit: avg 5/sec burst 10
    0     0 ACCEPT     tcp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0           

0.0.0.0/0 tcp flags:!0x0216/0x022
[root@ciccio-net /etc]#

Now: I start that iptables configuration with this script (at boot time)

[root@ciccio-net /etc]# cat /root/firewall
#!/bin/bash
#Comandos para la configuración del FireWall de Data Systems. Version 2 echo "## -- Iniciando Script de Firewall -- ##"

#Masquerade from internal Net to External net
iptables -P FORWARD DROP
iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -o eth1 -s 192.168.23.0/24 -j SNAT --to-source 192.168.23.103
iptables -A FORWARD -i ! eth1 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

echo " #---Creating Accept Chains---#"
iptables -P INPUT DROP

#TCPACCEPT - Check for SYN-Floods before letting TCP-Packets in iptables -N TCPACCEPT
iptables -A TCPACCEPT -p tcp --syn -m limit --limit 5/s --limit-burst 10 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A TCPACCEPT -p tcp ! --syn -j ACCEPT

#inbound ICMP
iptables -N ICMPACCEPT
iptables -A ICMPACCEPT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-reply -j ACCEPT iptables -A ICMPACCEPT -p icmp --icmp-type destination-unreachable -j ACCEPT

#Kill invalid packets (Not established, related or new) iptables -A INPUT -m state --state INVALID -j DROP

#Packets from internal net
iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.23.114 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.23.0/24 -j ACCEPT

echo " #---Packets from EXTERNAL net---#"
iptables -A INPUT -s 10.129.2.155 -j ACCEPT

#Filter ICMP
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p icmp -j ICMPACCEPT

#silently reject ident
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 113 -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset

echo " #---Enabling Public Services---#"
#ftp-data
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 20 -j TCPACCEPT

#ftp
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 21 -j TCPACCEPT

#ssh
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 22 -j TCPACCEPT

#telnet
#iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 23 -j TCPACCEPT

#smtp
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 25 -j TCPACCEPT

#DNS
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 53 -j TCPACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT

#HTTP
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 80 -j TCPACCEPT

#HTTPS
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 443 -j TCPACCEPT

#POP3
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 110 -j TCPACCEPT

echo " #---Allowing established, related connections in---#"

iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 1024:65535 -m state --state RELATED -j TCPACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p udp --dport 1024:65535 -m state --state RELATED -j ACCEPT
echo "## -- Script Loaded -- ##"
exit
[root@ciccio-net /etc]#

I've tested this configuration befor many times and never had any problems with ftp.

What else should I post?.

Iptables version: iptables v1.2.1a
proFTPD version: proftpd-1.2.9rc1

Anything else?

Oh, ifconfig -a:

[root@ciccio-net /root]# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:F8:23:5A:62

          inet addr:192.168.23.114  Bcast:192.168.23.255 
Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:444047 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:387507 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:4693 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:165587659 (157.9 Mb)  TX bytes:149730653 (142.7 Mb)
          Interrupt:15 Base address:0x8400

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:2B:C3:C1:0E

          inet addr:10.200.1.236  Bcast:10.200.1.239 
Mask:255.255.255.240
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1239679 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1
          TX packets:1113085 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:409 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:1495321451 (1426.0 Mb)  TX bytes:194423028 (185.4 Mb)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x8480

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1571 (1.5 Kb) TX bytes:1571 (1.5 Kb)

netstat -l outputs this:

[root@ciccio-net /root]# netstat -l
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address
State
tcp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:http *:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:32789 *:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:32790 *:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:32791 *:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:6010 *:*
LISTEN

udp        0      0 *:talk                  *:*
udp        0      0 *:sunrpc                *:*
Active UNIX domain sockets (only servers)
Proto RefCnt Flags       Type       State         I-Node Path
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     978    /dev/gpmctl

Samba is not realy that important. In fact smaba is not important at all. as long as I have FTP working.

I hope the information was better this time... I repeat... I'm noob here... and I've never had any problems with ftp servers before.

Thanks a lot.

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I tried to send this mail as HTML, but the list rejected it... :-(

Actually, this is a :-) .

Many of us find the clutter of html formatting burdensome ... you'll encounter a lot of this as you get more familiar with linux ... so you will see that many Linux-related lists reject html-formatted mail. And even on ones that do not reject it, experienced members (that is, the people who *answer* questions) will often complain about it.

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FTP: I can't have access to anyone of the machines

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FTP. I am
having some troubles with the config... what should I configuree again... what are the files that I should edit. When trying to connect it just says conection refused.. nothing else. I'm having troubles with this. I use xinet.d's pro-ftpd.

"Connection Refused" most likely means that nothing is listening on the

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port. Or it could mean that the particular IP addresses you are

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from are disallowed. Or, just barely possible, you could have a firewall rule in place that blocks access.

But the daemon is running (at least it should) I'll check when I get home.

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I surmise that you run ftp the usual way, through inetd (in your case, xinetd).

Yes. I do.

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Use "netstat -l" to verify that something is listening on port 21.

I'm not at home right now. But I will ASAP.

It does not show it. I see the problem now... but how do I solve it???

Unfortunately (for this purpose, anyway), I do not use xinetd here. I use inetd, so I cannot tell you how to configure xinetd to listen for incoming ftp requests. Possibly someone else here will jump in with the solution If not, or while you are waiting, I'd suggest reading over the man page for xinetd (and any other docs ... they are usually in /usr/share/doc) to see what you missed.

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Thanks.

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Check the xinetd configuration file to make sure it is listening on that

port.
HOW? I have in /etc/xinetd.d/pro-ftpd.conf the line disable=no. That should be enough... right?

As I said above, I have no idea.

But since nothing is listening on port 21, this is surely your problem. The queries about hosts_access and iptables are irrelevant to this problem.

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Check hosts.allow and hosts.deny to see if they interfere with access.

Nothing wrong there.

In fact NOTHING there at all. They are blank.

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Check your firewall ruleset (probably with "iptables -nvL", if you run a 2.4.x kernel) to see if there are any rules that DENY access.

I tried #service iptables stop and still didn't work.

Ok... this is going to be long...

here is the output of iptables -nvL

[root@ciccio-net /etc]# iptables -nvL
Chain INPUT (policy DROP 0 packets, 0 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source
destination

    0     0 DROP       all  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          state INVALID
    4   176 ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       192.168.23.114
0.0.0.0/0
18034 2264K ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       192.168.23.0/24
0.0.0.0/0
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       10.129.2.155
0.0.0.0/0
    3   232 ICMPACCEPT  icmp --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0
   10   600 REJECT     tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:113 reject-with tcp-reset
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:22
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:25
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:53
    0     0 ACCEPT     udp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          udp dpt:53
   17  4597 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:80
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:443
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:110
334K  501M ACCEPT     all  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          state ESTABLISHED
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpts:1024:65535 state RELATED
    0     0 ACCEPT     udp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          udp dpts:1024:65535 state RELATED
    0     0 DROP       all  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          state INVALID
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       192.168.23.114
0.0.0.0/0
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       192.168.23.0/24
0.0.0.0/0
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       10.129.2.155
0.0.0.0/0
    0     0 ICMPACCEPT  icmp --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0
    0     0 REJECT     tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:113 reject-with tcp-reset
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:20
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:21
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:22
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:25
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:53
    0     0 ACCEPT     udp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          udp dpt:53
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:80
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:443
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:110
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          state ESTABLISHED
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpts:1024:65535 state RELATED
    0     0 ACCEPT     udp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0

0.0.0.0/0 udp dpts:1024:65535 state RELATED

Chain FORWARD (policy DROP 0 packets, 0 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source
destination
86306 36M ACCEPT all -- !eth1 * 0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0
73152 20M ACCEPT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0 state RELATED,ESTABLISHED

    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  !eth1  *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0

0.0.0.0/0 state RELATED,ESTABLISHED

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 794155 packets, 49858689 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source
destination

Chain ICMPACCEPT (2 references)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source
destination

    0     0 ACCEPT     icmp --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          icmp type 0
    0     0 ACCEPT     icmp --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          icmp type 3
    0     0 ACCEPT     icmp --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          icmp type 0
    0     0 ACCEPT     icmp --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0

0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 3

Chain TCPACCEPT (16 references)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source
destination

    5   240 ACCEPT     tcp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp flags:0x0216/0x022 limit: avg 5/sec burst 10
   12  4357 ACCEPT     tcp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp flags:!0x0216/0x022
    0     0 ACCEPT     tcp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp flags:0x0216/0x022 limit: avg 5/sec burst 10
    0     0 ACCEPT     tcp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0

0.0.0.0/0 tcp flags:!0x0216/0x022
[root@ciccio-net /etc]#

Now: I start that iptables configuration with this script (at boot time)

[root@ciccio-net /etc]# cat /root/firewall
#!/bin/bash
#Comandos para la configuración del FireWall de Data Systems. Version 2 echo "## -- Iniciando Script de Firewall -- ##"

#Masquerade from internal Net to External net
iptables -P FORWARD DROP
iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -o eth1 -s 192.168.23.0/24 -j SNAT --to-source 192.168.23.103
iptables -A FORWARD -i ! eth1 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

echo " #---Creating Accept Chains---#"
iptables -P INPUT DROP

#TCPACCEPT - Check for SYN-Floods before letting TCP-Packets in iptables -N TCPACCEPT
iptables -A TCPACCEPT -p tcp --syn -m limit --limit 5/s --limit-burst 10 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A TCPACCEPT -p tcp ! --syn -j ACCEPT

#inbound ICMP
iptables -N ICMPACCEPT
iptables -A ICMPACCEPT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-reply -j ACCEPT iptables -A ICMPACCEPT -p icmp --icmp-type destination-unreachable -j ACCEPT

#Kill invalid packets (Not established, related or new) iptables -A INPUT -m state --state INVALID -j DROP

#Packets from internal net
iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.23.114 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.23.0/24 -j ACCEPT

echo " #---Packets from EXTERNAL net---#"
iptables -A INPUT -s 10.129.2.155 -j ACCEPT

#Filter ICMP
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p icmp -j ICMPACCEPT

#silently reject ident
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 113 -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset

echo " #---Enabling Public Services---#"
#ftp-data
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 20 -j TCPACCEPT

#ftp
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 21 -j TCPACCEPT

#ssh
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 22 -j TCPACCEPT

#telnet
#iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 23 -j TCPACCEPT

#smtp
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 25 -j TCPACCEPT

#DNS
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 53 -j TCPACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT

#HTTP
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 80 -j TCPACCEPT

#HTTPS
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 443 -j TCPACCEPT

#POP3
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 110 -j TCPACCEPT

echo " #---Allowing established, related connections in---#"

iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 1024:65535 -m state --state RELATED -j TCPACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p udp --dport 1024:65535 -m state --state RELATED -j ACCEPT
echo "## -- Script Loaded -- ##"
exit
[root@ciccio-net /etc]#

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I've tested this configuration befor many times and never had any problems with ftp.

Do you mean you have run other ftp *servers* with this ruleset in place, or that you have run ftp clients successfully? They are quite different problems.

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What else should I post?.

I don't think you ever told us the basics: what Linux distro and version, what kernel ("uname -a"). Routing does not seem relevant to your immediate problems, but whenever networking it involved, it pays to include the routing table and an explanation of the basic networking setup (see below for more on this). And since your initial message did mention Linux hosts "A" and "B", it would help at least to know *which* host we are now talking about ... as I say below, I *think* it is "B" from before.

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Iptables version: iptables v1.2.1a
proFTPD version: proftpd-1.2.9rc1

Anything else?

Oh, ifconfig -a:

[root@ciccio-net /root]# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:F8:23:5A:62

          inet addr:192.168.23.114  Bcast:192.168.23.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:444047 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:387507 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:4693 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:165587659 (157.9 Mb)  TX bytes:149730653 (142.7 Mb)
          Interrupt:15 Base address:0x8400

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:2B:C3:C1:0E

          inet addr:10.200.1.236  Bcast:10.200.1.239
Mask:255.255.255.240
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1239679 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1
          TX packets:1113085 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:409 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:1495321451 (1426.0 Mb)  TX bytes:194423028 (185.4 Mb)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x8480
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lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1571 (1.5 Kb) TX bytes:1571 (1.5 Kb)

Hmmm ... since this machine has 2 NICs, I assume it is "B" from your prior message (the one that "A" uses to access the Internet). Since both interfaces use private (RFC1918 non-routable) IP addresses, it would help to know which is your external, which your internal interface.I could infer this from your routing table ("netstat -nr" is one way to list it), but you didn't include that.

For purposes of troubleshooting ftp on "B", this next part is irrelevant ... but I don't quite see how "A" is accessing the Internet through "B". That is, I do not understand your NAT'ing setup, probably because I do not know what the address "192.168.23.103" in your SNAT rule refers to.

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netstat -l outputs this:

[root@ciccio-net /root]# netstat -l
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address
State
tcp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:http *:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:32789 *:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:32790 *:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:32791 *:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:6010 *:*
LISTEN

udp        0      0 *:talk                  *:*
udp        0      0 *:sunrpc                *:*
Active UNIX domain sockets (only servers)
Proto RefCnt Flags       Type       State         I-Node Path
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     978    /dev/gpmctl
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Samba is not realy that important. In fact smaba is not important at all. as long as I have FTP working.

Note from the above that nothing is listening on the SMB ports either. But since you say Samba is, now, "not realy that important", I won't go into that.

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I hope the information was better this time... I repeat... I'm noob here... and I've never had any problems with ftp servers before.

In what contexts have you previously run ftp servers? Any that ran through inetd or xinetd?

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I tried to send this mail as HTML, but the list rejected it... :-(

Actually, this is a :-) .

Many of us find the clutter of html formatting burdensome ... you'll encounter a lot of this as you get more familiar with linux ... so you will see that many Linux-related lists reject html-formatted mail. And even on ones that do not reject it, experienced members (that is, the people who *answer* questions) will often complain about it.

I know. In fact I usually complain about the use of HTML.but in this case it was kind of usefull. You see... I wanted to make some differences between the quoted and the actual text I wrote. (quoted from my stdout)

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[apache stuff deleted]

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FTP: I can't have access to anyone of the machines

trough

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FTP. I am
having some troubles with the config... what should I configuree again... what are the files that I should edit. When trying to connect it just says conection refused.. nothing else. I'm having troubles with this. I use xinet.d's pro-ftpd.

"Connection Refused" most likely means that nothing is listening on the

ftp

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port. Or it could mean that the particular IP addresses you are

connecting

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from are disallowed. Or, just barely possible, you could have a firewall rule in place that blocks access.

But the daemon is running (at least it should) I'll check when I get home.

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I surmise that you run ftp the usual way, through inetd (in your case, xinetd).

Yes. I do.

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Use "netstat -l" to verify that something is listening on port 21.

I'm not at home right now. But I will ASAP.

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It does not show it. I see the problem now... but how do I solve it???

Unfortunately (for this purpose, anyway), I do not use xinetd here. I use inetd, so I cannot tell you how to configure xinetd to listen for incoming ftp requests. Possibly someone else here will jump in with the solution If not, or while you are waiting, I'd suggest reading over the man page for xinetd (and any other docs ... they are usually in /usr/share/doc) to see what you missed.

I will. Though it worked before with wu-ftpd... when I changed something in my server it stopped working... and so I thought of trying proftpd.

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Thanks.

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Check the xinetd configuration file to make sure it is listening on that

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port.
HOW? I have in /etc/xinetd.d/pro-ftpd.conf the line disable=no. That should be enough... right?

As I said above, I have no idea.

But since nothing is listening on port 21, this is surely your problem. The queries about hosts_access and iptables are irrelevant to this problem.

I see. However iptables has port 20 and 21 open. and it sure has other ports open as well.

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Check hosts.allow and hosts.deny to see if they interfere with access.

Nothing wrong there.

In fact NOTHING there at all. They are blank.

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Check your firewall ruleset (probably with "iptables -nvL", if you run a 2.4.x kernel) to see if there are any rules that DENY access.

I tried #service iptables stop and still didn't work.

Ok... this is going to be long...

here is the output of iptables -nvL

[root@ciccio-net /etc]# iptables -nvL
Chain INPUT (policy DROP 0 packets, 0 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source
destination

    0     0 DROP       all  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          state INVALID
    4   176 ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       192.168.23.114
0.0.0.0/0
18034 2264K ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       192.168.23.0/24
0.0.0.0/0
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       10.129.2.155
0.0.0.0/0
    3   232 ICMPACCEPT  icmp --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0
   10   600 REJECT     tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:113 reject-with tcp-reset
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:22
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:25
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:53
    0     0 ACCEPT     udp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          udp dpt:53
   17  4597 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:80
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:443
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:110
334K  501M ACCEPT     all  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          state ESTABLISHED
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpts:1024:65535 state RELATED
    0     0 ACCEPT     udp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          udp dpts:1024:65535 state RELATED
    0     0 DROP       all  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          state INVALID
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       192.168.23.114
0.0.0.0/0
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       192.168.23.0/24
0.0.0.0/0
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       10.129.2.155
0.0.0.0/0
    0     0 ICMPACCEPT  icmp --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0
    0     0 REJECT     tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:113 reject-with tcp-reset
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:20
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:21
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:22
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:25
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:53
    0     0 ACCEPT     udp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          udp dpt:53
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:80
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:443
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:110
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          state ESTABLISHED
    0     0 TCPACCEPT  tcp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpts:1024:65535 state RELATED
    0     0 ACCEPT     udp  --  eth1   *       0.0.0.0/0

0.0.0.0/0 udp dpts:1024:65535 state RELATED

Chain FORWARD (policy DROP 0 packets, 0 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source
destination
86306 36M ACCEPT all -- !eth1 * 0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0
73152 20M ACCEPT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0 state RELATED,ESTABLISHED

    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  !eth1  *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0

0.0.0.0/0 state RELATED,ESTABLISHED

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 794155 packets, 49858689 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source
destination

Chain ICMPACCEPT (2 references)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source
destination

    0     0 ACCEPT     icmp --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          icmp type 0
    0     0 ACCEPT     icmp --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          icmp type 3
    0     0 ACCEPT     icmp --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          icmp type 0
    0     0 ACCEPT     icmp --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0

0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 3

Chain TCPACCEPT (16 references)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source
destination

    5   240 ACCEPT     tcp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp flags:0x0216/0x022 limit: avg 5/sec burst 10
   12  4357 ACCEPT     tcp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp flags:!0x0216/0x022
    0     0 ACCEPT     tcp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0/0          tcp flags:0x0216/0x022 limit: avg 5/sec burst 10
    0     0 ACCEPT     tcp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0

0.0.0.0/0 tcp flags:!0x0216/0x022
[root@ciccio-net /etc]#

Now: I start that iptables configuration with this script (at boot time)

[root@ciccio-net /etc]# cat /root/firewall
#!/bin/bash
#Comandos para la configuración del FireWall de Data Systems. Version 2 echo "## -- Iniciando Script de Firewall -- ##"

#Masquerade from internal Net to External net
iptables -P FORWARD DROP
iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -o eth1 -s 192.168.23.0/24 -j SNAT --to-source 192.168.23.103
iptables -A FORWARD -i ! eth1 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

echo " #---Creating Accept Chains---#"
iptables -P INPUT DROP

#TCPACCEPT - Check for SYN-Floods before letting TCP-Packets in iptables -N TCPACCEPT
iptables -A TCPACCEPT -p tcp --syn -m limit --limit 5/s --limit-burst 10 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A TCPACCEPT -p tcp ! --syn -j ACCEPT

#inbound ICMP
iptables -N ICMPACCEPT
iptables -A ICMPACCEPT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-reply -j ACCEPT iptables -A ICMPACCEPT -p icmp --icmp-type destination-unreachable -j ACCEPT

#Kill invalid packets (Not established, related or new) iptables -A INPUT -m state --state INVALID -j DROP

#Packets from internal net
iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.23.114 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.23.0/24 -j ACCEPT

echo " #---Packets from EXTERNAL net---#"
iptables -A INPUT -s 10.129.2.155 -j ACCEPT

#Filter ICMP
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p icmp -j ICMPACCEPT

#silently reject ident
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 113 -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset

echo " #---Enabling Public Services---#"
#ftp-data
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 20 -j TCPACCEPT

#ftp
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 21 -j TCPACCEPT

#ssh
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 22 -j TCPACCEPT

#telnet
#iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 23 -j TCPACCEPT

#smtp
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 25 -j TCPACCEPT

#DNS
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 53 -j TCPACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT

#HTTP
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 80 -j TCPACCEPT

#HTTPS
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 443 -j TCPACCEPT

#POP3
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 110 -j TCPACCEPT

echo " #---Allowing established, related connections in---#"

iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 1024:65535 -m state --state RELATED -j TCPACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p udp --dport 1024:65535 -m state --state RELATED -j ACCEPT
echo "## -- Script Loaded -- ##"
exit
[root@ciccio-net /etc]#

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I've tested this configuration befor many times and never had any problems with ftp.

Do you mean you have run other ftp *servers* with this ruleset in place, or that you have run ftp clients successfully? They are quite different problems.

I used to use wu-ftpd... but when I changed something (don't know exactly what) it stopped working. After two hours of troubleshooting it I decieded to change it for a newr version of pro-ftpd (I have succesfully tried pro-ftpd on my mandrake)

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What else should I post?.

I don't think you ever told us the basics: what Linux distro and version, what kernel ("uname -a"). Routing does not seem relevant to your immediate problems, but whenever networking it involved, it pays to include the routing table and an explanation of the basic networking setup (see below for more on this). And since your initial message did mention Linux hosts "A" and "B", it would help at least to know *which* host we are now talking about ... as I say below, I *think* it is "B" from before.

A: Mandrake 9.1 Linux version 2.4.21-0.13mdk ([email protected]) (gcc version 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk)) #1 Fri Mar 14 15:08:06 EST 2003.

B: RedHat Linux 7.0 for alphaserver Linux version 2.4.3-12 ([email protected]) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-85)) #1 Fri Jun 8 13:20:17 EDT 2001

C: Windows XP professional edition. with all security updates.

Here is my network setup:
B: this is the router. The ip of the local network is 192.168.23.114
(my network is 192.168.23.xxx). The access to the internet is 10.200.1.236.
A: this is the host that I want to have access to the server through
ftp with. It's IP is 192.168.23.2
C: Windows Client. nothing really important about this machine...
except that it's IP is 192.168.23.103 and that I have a VNCserver (which will be part of my next question to the list).

ALL the info I provided (iptables setup, ifconfig -a, etc) is from B, the router.

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Iptables version: iptables v1.2.1a
proFTPD version: proftpd-1.2.9rc1

Anything else?

Oh, ifconfig -a:

[root@ciccio-net /root]# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:F8:23:5A:62

          inet addr:192.168.23.114  Bcast:192.168.23.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:444047 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:387507 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:4693 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:165587659 (157.9 Mb)  TX bytes:149730653 (142.7 Mb)
          Interrupt:15 Base address:0x8400

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:2B:C3:C1:0E

          inet addr:10.200.1.236  Bcast:10.200.1.239
Mask:255.255.255.240
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1239679 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1
          TX packets:1113085 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:409 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:1495321451 (1426.0 Mb)  TX bytes:194423028 (185.4 Mb)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x8480
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lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1571 (1.5 Kb) TX bytes:1571 (1.5 Kb)

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Hmmm ... since this machine has 2 NICs, I assume it is "B" from your prior message (the one that "A" uses to access the Internet). Since both interfaces use private (RFC1918 non-routable) IP addresses, it would help to know which is your external, which your internal interface.I could infer this from your routing table ("netstat -nr" is one way to list it), but you didn't include that.

eth0 is internal, eth1 is external. I know they are both private... but I have the eth1 nated (my ISP did that) and I'm used to use the public IP (216.118.237.252)

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For purposes of troubleshooting ftp on "B", this next part is irrelevant ... but I don't quite see how "A" is accessing the Internet through "B". That is, I do not understand your NAT'ing setup, probably because I do not know what the address "192.168.23.103" in your SNAT rule refers to.

x.x.x.103 is the Windows client... it shouldn't interfer with anything here. The iptables configuration was made by a friend. I just copied and edited it a little. And the NATing was done by my ISP's technician. Anyway. 192.168.23. is the local network (my home's) and 10.200. is the ISP's network... All I do in route everything. they do the rest...

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netstat -l outputs this:

[root@ciccio-net /root]# netstat -l
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address
State
tcp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:http *:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:32789 *:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:32790 *:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:32791 *:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:6010 *:*
LISTEN

udp        0      0 *:talk                  *:*
udp        0      0 *:sunrpc                *:*
Active UNIX domain sockets (only servers)
Proto RefCnt Flags       Type       State         I-Node Path
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     978    /dev/gpmctl
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Samba is not realy that important. In fact smaba is not important at all. as long as I have FTP working.

Note from the above that nothing is listening on the SMB ports either. But since you say Samba is, now, "not realy that important", I won't go into that.

If IPTABLES opende the port. the problem would be in my xinetd config right? then I could correct it by reading the manual. Thanks.

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I hope the information was better this time... I repeat... I'm noob here... and I've never had any problems with ftp servers before.

In what contexts have you previously run ftp servers? Any that ran through inetd or xinetd?

Correction!! this server seems to be standalone... I'm reading through the documentation again... but aparently at install time I made it standalone. So xinetd shouldn't have much to do here. I will try to install it with xinetd and then make sure the configuration is correct... I'm messed up here... I will try to organize a little better.

thanks a lot.

PS: please, SNIP out whatever you think is irrelevant for this message... it's getting quiet long. (I'm not sure what you could still need since I added information). Thanks a lot.

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