RE: ftp errors

["Burke, Thomas G." <thomas_g_burke md northgrum 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?
> 
	[Burke, Thomas G.]  Yes.  Actually, ls works, it just says "No files
found" (as if the directory were empty...  I checked, and all
files/directories have at least 755 permissions...  This is under any login
(anonymous or otherwise) when the user is sitting in the /home/ftp
directory...  In certain other directories, it works fine.  (my own home
directory, for instance).

> 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
> 
> 
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