Hey guy i have installed vsftpd in my UBUNTU box and im trying to test it. my box has 2 network interface eth0 is connected to the internet and eht1 is connected to the LAN and i have firestarter installed on it to share the internet and also set it to forward all ftp traffic to eth0.


Im trying to test anonymous access to the ftp server. I enabled anonymous access to the server and was successful to log using the eth0 interface IP but i am not sure what directory i login to. So i added the "anon_root=/var/ftp" in the vsftpd.conf but but still im loging in to a directory im not sure where it is. Then i tried to login again but this time using the eth1 interface IP and now im sure that the directory i have login is the /var/ftp. how come eth0 interface directs me to different directory and not the one specified on the vsftpd.conf...

Restart vsftpd. I believe vsftpd uses multiple processes, and you need to restart the service to make sure all of them behave by the new rules.

You might also have another ftp server running by accident that has attached itself to your eth0. I know that I'm grasping at straws here, but your situation does sound odd.