[CLUE-Tech] wu-ftpd connected, no login prompt

[Matt Gushee]

Hey, folks--

I am having trouble w/ wu-ftpd on my Debian 2.2 box. The situation
is that I need to back up some files for my wife -- she got a virus
on her Win98 box, so I want to copy a few critical things to my 
machine before running the virus killer, just on the off chance it
might trash her system.

So anyway:

  We are connected via ethernet as per the diagram below:

    ------------
    | My box   | Ether  -----
    | 10.0.0.2 |--------|   |         -------------
    ------------        | H | Ether   |           |  DSL
                        | U |---------| Cisco 678 |-------> World
    ------------ Ether  | B |         |           |
    | Her box  |--------|   |         -------------
    | 10.0.0.4 |        -----
    ------------
    
  When I try to connect from her machine to mine with an FTP
  client (I've tried both WS-FTP and commandline FTP), what
  seems to happen is that a connection is established, but
  no login. 

  The messages in /var/log/syslog look like this:

  Mar  2 19:22:14 swordfish wu-ftpd[1203]: connect from 10.0.0.4
  Mar  2 19:23:35 swordfish wu-ftpd[1203]: lost connection to \
    taeko [10.0.0.4]
  Mar  2 19:23:35 swordfish wu-ftpd[1203]: FTP session closed

  I've done a Google groups search on this, and all I could come
  up with was that ftpd might be doing a reverse DNS lookup, which
  would of course fail since 10.0.0.4 isn't listed in DNS. But I
  put an entry for her machine in /etc/hosts:

    10.0.0.4        taeko           taeko.havenrock.com

  And, yes, I've restarted inetd, restarted ftpd, etc. more times
  than I can count.

Anybody have a clue about this? By the way, I wouldn't mind trying
another FTP server, but I'm not sure which one would be best. ProFTPD
was the default with my system, but it apparently has a bug which
makes *local* file transfers extremely slow, and often to fail
entirely ... and since I only ever run ftpd for local transfers,
I disabled it and installed WU-FTPD. By the way, I did that the last
time I had to kill a virus on her machine (yeah, I know she should
have proper antivirus software, but we're poor, and there's another
complication that I won't go into here, but it relates to her OS
being the Japanese version), and I remember having to fight with
WU-FTPD then, but I eventually made it work. Of course, stupid me,
I didn't take any notes on what I did to make it work. But what's
weird is I can't find any relevant config files that I've changed
since then.

So, TIA for any light you can shed on this.

-- 
Matt Gushee
Englewood, Colorado, USA
mgushee at havenrock.com
http://www.havenrock.com/