I think that Doug made the mistake of not reading the replies to my question, since I asked the same question quite recent. We are not the same person. But Doug, can you post how your solution works? I now opened up a port range in my firewall and I restricted vsftpd to those ports for passive mode. But i now understand there is also another (better?) way to go. - Jeroen On Tuesday 20 July 2004 06:04 am, Edward wrote: > Doug Maurer wrote: > > I've asked this question before, but nothing has helped > > > > I'm trying to ftp out, I can log into a remote system (another FC2 > > system, mine, configured with vsftpd and NAT running.) > > > > on the local side I get > > 227 Entering Passive Mode (x,x,x,x,80,76) > > ftp: connect: No route to host > > > > I can log into another system like ftp.linux.ncsu.edu just fine. > > > > only thing is, its only this box, on the remote box I can ftp out to > > another fc2/fc1, etc.. with no problem. > > > > the local box was just reloaded from scratch. with basic iptables > > running.. with no local nat. and still get the error. > > > > does anyone have any idea, what might be causing this? > > Yes, the answers you got the first time you asked this will solve your > problem. > > Instead of "Basic" iptables and all that you describe above, why don't > you try (just temporarily) to run NO iptables whatsoever and see what > that does? > > Seems logical to me. > > Regards, > Ed.