Re: ftp errors

[Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>]

"Burke, Thomas G." wrote:
> 
> I am trying to allow anonymous ftp to my machine, but it seems to
> not be working correctly.
> [...]
> ftp works fine from my work & internal machines with one caveat ->
> I cannot ls the ftp home directory (ls -al _does_ work, though)...

Does "ls" works when logged in as anonymous or as yourself?
Does "ls -al" work during the same login that "ls" doesn't?
Please clarify what does and does not work for normal users
and for anonymous.

> I was at a class, & decided it would be a perfect opportunity to try
> to ftp from remote, and got an access denied message.  I decided to
> try to ssh in & see if I could figure out what was going on, with the
> same result...  This was in my logs (messages):
> 
> Jul 20 07:29:57 tomii sshd[7323]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 8:
> can't verify hostname: gethostbyname(lounge4.roc.ltree.com) failed
> [...]
> Can someone help me with this - Oh, I have no name server running on
> my box (not even squid), could that be part of this screwey message?

This sounds like you don't have a way to resolve these hostnames.
Make sure "nslookup somehostname" works on your machine.  If not, you
may need to edit /etc/resolv.conf and specify the network DNS server.

BTW, Squid is not a name server.  Squid is an HTTP cache.
Bind (named) is a name server.

	- Kevin Colby
	  kevinc grainsystems com