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"Sorry, but I won't connect to ports (2 posts)

• Started 5 months ago by J
• Latest reply 5 months ago from Jim Matthews

• J Member

  First I was getting this error. "sorry, but I won't connect to ports < 1024"

  ...now... Fetch is timing out and telling me "A server firewall might be blocking passive mode (PASV) transfer. Please Ask the server administrator for help."

  At times, I have seen the files come up on screen then disappear, only to display another error message. I have 2 different hosts, and I can not access sites on either severs. Please Help!
  Thanks in Advance!

  Fetch 5.5.3 (5E778) PowerPC running on Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a) PowerPC English
  StuffIt Engine 0x820, StuffIt SDK Version 10.1.1b1
  Expires 4/11/10 T
  Connecting to jasonbeardweb.com port 21 (Mac OS X firewall is allowing connections) (3/27/10 12:03 PM)
  Connected to 97.74.183.128 port 21 (3/27/10 12:03 PM)
  220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [privsep] [TLS] ----------
  220-You are user number 7 of 500 allowed.
  220-Local time is now 11:02. Server port: 21.
  220-This is a private system - No anonymous login
  220 You will be disconnected after 3 minutes of inactivity.
  USER pxxxxxx
  331 User pxxxxxx OK. Password required
  PASS
  230-User pxxxxxx has group access to: inetuser
  230 OK. Current restricted directory is /
  SYST
  215 UNIX Type: L8
  PWD
  257 "/" is your current location
  MACB ENABLE
  500 Unknown command
  PWD
  257 "/" is your current location
  TYPE A
  200 TYPE is now ASCII
  PORT 192,168,1,100,201,56
  501 Sorry, but I won't connect to ports < 1024
  PASV
  227 Entering Passive Mode (97,74,183,128,197,23)
  Making data connection to 97.74.183.128 port 50455
  ABOR
  500 ?
  ftp_list: 2,-30000 (state == GETTING_LIST)
  PWD
  257 "/" is your current location
  Update check skipped at 3/27/10 12:04 PM (next check after 3/28/10 1:08 AM)
  PWD
  257 "/" is your current location
  PWD
  257 "/" is your current location
  PWD
  257 "/" is your current location
  PWD
  257 "/" is your current location
  QUIT
  221-Goodbye. You uploaded 0 and downloaded 0 kbytes.
  221 Logout.
  Connecting to jasonbeardweb.com port 21 (Mac OS X firewall is allowing connections) (3/27/10 12:10 PM)
  Connected to 97.74.183.128 port 21 (3/27/10 12:10 PM)
  220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [privsep] [TLS] ----------
  220-You are user number 5 of 500 allowed.
  220-Local time is now 11:10. Server port: 21.
  220-This is a private system - No anonymous login
  220 You will be disconnected after 3 minutes of inactivity.
  USER pxxxxx
  331 User pxxxxx OK. Password required
  PASS
  230-User pxxxxx has group access to: inetuser
  230 OK. Current restricted directory is /
  SYST
  215 UNIX Type: L8
  PWD
  257 "/" is your current location
  MACB ENABLE
  500 Unknown command
  CWD /
  250 OK. Current directory is /
  PWD
  257 "/" is your current location
  CWD /
  250 OK. Current directory is /
  PWD
  257 "/" is your current location
  TYPE A
  200 TYPE is now ASCII
  PASV
  227 Entering Passive Mode (97,74,183,128,195,124)
  Making data connection to 97.74.183.128 port 50044
  ABOR
  500 ?
  PORT 192,168,1,100,201,123
  501 Sorry, but I won't connect to ports < 1024
  ftp_list: 2,-30037 (state == GETTING_LIST)
  PWD
  257 "/" is your current location
  PWD
  257 "/" is your current location
  PWD
  257 "/" is your current location

  Posted 5 months ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  Hi,

  As the message says, it appears that a server firewall is blocking passive mode connections. So my first suggestion would be to contact the server administrator and ask her or him to allow passive mode FTP.

  If that does not work the next thing I would try is connecting your Mac directly to your cable or DSL modem; that may allow active mode FTP to work.

  Please let me know how it goes.

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 5 months ago #