vsFTPd problem
 

Can anyone help?

I have setup vsFTPd on my RH9 box and all is fine on my local network. I can ftp from another machine to the server and all is fine.

However, when I try to connect in from another machine on the internet, it refuses my connection.

I'm very confident that it's not a firewall issue as I've allowed the server to be seen completely by the outside world and I'm not blocking port 21. remotely SSH'ing to the machine works from the outside world too, if that's any indication that the firewall is not blocking anything.

If anyone can offer any idea it would be much appreciated!

Cheers.

can you post the output of:
ps aux

and

nmap your.ip.address

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.0 1376 480 ? S 08:01 0:04 init
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 08:01 0:00 [migration/0]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 08:01 0:00 [migration/1]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 08:01 0:00 [keventd]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN 08:01 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN 08:01 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU1]
root 11 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 08:01 0:00 [bdflush]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 08:01 0:00 [kswapd]
root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 08:01 0:00 [kscand/DMA]
root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 08:01 0:02 [kscand/Normal]
root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 08:01 0:03 [kscand/HighMem]
root 12 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 08:01 0:00 [kupdated]
root 13 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 08:01 0:00 [mdrecoveryd]
root 19 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 08:01 0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
root 20 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 08:01 0:00 [scsi_eh_1]
root 26 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 08:02 0:00 [kjournald]
root 83 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 08:02 0:00 [khubd]
root 1171 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 08:02 0:00 [kjournald]
root 1484 0.0 0.0 1440 580 ? S 08:02 0:00 syslogd -m 0
root 1488 0.0 0.0 1368 428 ? S 08:02 0:00 klogd -x
rpc 1506 0.0 0.0 1548 548 ? S 08:02 0:00 [portmap]
rpcuser 1525 0.0 0.0 1528 688 ? S 08:02 0:00 [rpc.statd]
root 1621 0.0 0.0 3504 1500 ? S 08:02 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
root 1635 0.0 0.0 1592 460 ? S 08:02 0:00 /usr/sbin/vsftpd
root 1657 0.0 0.1 5916 2528 ? S 08:02 0:00 [sendmail]
smmsp 1666 0.0 0.1 5716 2264 ? S 08:02 0:00 [sendmail]
root 1676 0.0 0.0 1408 440 ? S 08:02 0:00 gpm -t ps/2 -m /d
root 1685 0.0 0.0 1420 572 ? S 08:02 0:00 crond
daemon 1703 0.0 0.0 1412 532 ? S 08:02 0:00 [atd]
root 1712 0.0 0.0 1348 396 tty2 S 08:02 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt
root 1713 0.0 0.0 1348 396 tty3 S 08:02 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt
root 1714 0.0 0.0 1348 396 tty4 S 08:02 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt
root 1715 0.0 0.0 1348 396 tty5 S 08:02 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt
root 1716 0.0 0.0 1348 396 tty6 S 08:02 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt
root 2175 0.0 0.0 1352 400 tty1 S 11:30 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt
root 2335 0.3 0.0 6780 2036 ? S 17:42 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
root 2337 1.6 0.0 4296 1364 pts/0 S 17:42 0:00 -bash
root 2377 0.0 0.0 2620 668 pts/0 R 17:42 0:00 ps aux

When I issue the nmap command I get "command not found"

Thnaks for your help.

Hey forget it, I just upgraded the firmware on my router and all is ok now!