FW: "421 Service not available, remote server has closed connect ion\"

["Quinn, Francis B." <fbquinn utmb edu>]

This problem has caused me to put RedHat 6.0 aside for a whole year.

Trying to access a RedHat 6.1 server from another linux box, gives
"421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection."

No problem ftp'ing FROM server to another machine.
I checked, and /mnt/cdrom/ftp-0.15-1.i386.rpm is installed from the CDROM.
  That's right, I entered 

  rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/ftp-0.15-1.i386.rpm

and it said "...already installed"

I checked:
/etc/ftp* "no such file or directory"
(no find ftpaccess, ftphosts, or ftpusers as per Installation Guide 11.11 pg
215)
/etc/hosts.allow "in.ftp: ALL"
(I then modified this file as per Installation Guide 11.10 pg 215, then 
rebooted. i.e., I added the following:
   in.talkd: ALL  in.ntalkd: ALL   in.fingerd: ALL   in.ftpd: ALL)
/etc/hosts.deny "(no entries)"
/etc/inetd.conf "ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a"
(No man page for in.ftpd.)
My machine does not have a /home/ftp directory (all my Slakware machines
do.!)

I searched ftp//:ftp.cert.org/pub/tech_tips - no help
I searched the install list - no help

I'll appreciate any help y'all can give.  Else it's back in the box for
another year for good old RedHat 6.1. Slakware still does a good job for me.
 
P.S.: Wasn't there a new RPM that fixed this.  Thought I saw it on a mail
message....?

F. B. Quinn, Jr., M.D.,M.S.(ICS),P.E.
Univ. Texas Med. Branch
Galveston, TX