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

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Maybe your computer has a firewall that blocks FTP requests. I know that RedHat 7.1/7.2 default firewall rules block everything. May Debian does the same?

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On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 20:49:44 -0700
Matt Gushee <mgushee at havenrock.com> wrote:

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> 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.
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