[ale] ftp - no route to host???

[Jerald Sheets]

Well..

Of course you are.

;)


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Jerald M. Sheets jr.




On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>wrote:

> Jerald Sheets wrote:
> > ooo...  are you in a chrooted environment, but haven't made the
> > allowances for individual user directories in the chroot config?
>
> no chroot.  Trying to connect from a host machine to a vm running under
> vmplayer.
>
> >
> > --j
> >
> >
> > On Jul 27, 2010, at 7:53 AM, Geoffrey wrote:
> >
> >> Richard Bronosky wrote:
> >>>>> ftp $IP_ADDR
> >>>>>
> >>>>> returns:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ftp: connect: No route to host
> >>> If the error was connection refuse, or connection reset, I'd say
> >>> it was either a firewall on the box or by his ISP. But, "No
> >>> route" means his client does not know that it has a network
> >>> interface capable of routing traffic to the given host (which in
> >>> this case is specified by an IP address). Although he is able to
> >>> reach it via SSH and UDP ping. That's jacked up.
> >>>
> >>> Maybe try: echo $IP_ADDR # make sure you have the right var/value
> >>>  host $IP_ADDR # seeing if you can do a [reverse] lookup on the
> >>> var/value telnet $IP_ADDR 22 # standard ssh port number telnet
> >>> $IP_ADDR 21 # standard ftp port number
> >>>
> >>> If you get "No route to host" from one of those telnets and not
> >>> the other... evil is afoot.
> >> Interesting thing now,  if I do:
> >>
> >> ftp $IP_ADDR 21
> >>
> >> prompts for password, I enter it, I then get:
> >>
> >> OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/student
> >>
> >> I'm logging in as that id, what gives???
> >>
> >>
> >> -- Until later, Geoffrey
> >>
> >> "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent the
> >> government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense
> >> of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson
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> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
>
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> the pretense of taking care of them."
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