free.doomers.org?

[Stilgar]

Is the free.doomers.org ftp still the preferred place to contribute? Ability to connect to it seems spotty at best.

Edit: Solved. It might be nice if a note was made that you have to disable "PASV" mode on the FTP client to get in.

[Jon]

I thought you had to turn it on for it to work! The only open port on the firewall for that machine is port 21, so, if you are using non-passive mode, it should fail because that tries to use various other ports. I think.

[Stilgar]

Hmmm... well this is odd, I just checked it again to be doubly sure. I'm using gFTP 2.0.18 on Debian GNU/Linux, here are the results of toggling the "Passive file transfers" option under Options > FTP:

Passive file transfers ON
Looking up free.doomers.org
Trying free.doomers.org:21
Connected to free.doomers.org:21
220 Welcome to free.doomers.org: please use passive mode for transfers.
USER Anonymous

331 Please specify the password.
PASS xxxx
230 Login successful.
SYST

215 UNIX Type: L8
TYPE I

200 Switching to Binary mode.
PWD

257 "/"
Loading directory listing / from server (LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8)
PASV

227 Entering Passive Mode (85,13,250,83,98,163)
(At this point, it tries to recieve the file listings, but nothing comes; it just sits there)

Passive file transfers OFF
Looking up free.doomers.org
Trying free.doomers.org:21
Connected to free.doomers.org:21
220 Welcome to free.doomers.org: please use passive mode for transfers.
USER Anonymous

331 Please specify the password.
PASS xxxx
230 Login successful.
SYST

215 UNIX Type: L8
TYPE I

200 Switching to Binary mode.
PWD

257 "/"
Loading directory listing / from server (LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8)
PORT 76,24,32,150,180,245

200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
LIST -aL

150 Here comes the directory listing.
226 Directory send OK.

So, it definitely has to be off for this program, but maybe it's doing something in an odd way that other programs don't?

[Jon]

Hi: OK, I've done a bit of experimenting, and passive mode should now work.

Active mode will also work, but only for clients which can open ports on themselves; which could be troublesome for people behind NAT routers which don't have UPNP turned on or UPNP-supporting ftp clients.