On 9/29/09, Dave Stevens geek@uniserve.com wrote:
I manage a small server that I back up weekly. I do this by making a tarball of relevant files then transferring it over the local subnet to my station (Fedora 11), whereupon I burn it to DVD. There is no optical burner on the server. The tarball amounts to a bit under 5 gigs. Recently I've started getting an error telling me to try PASV or PORT first. I use the gFTP client on my machine and as far as I know there is no option in this program to use either option either locally or remotely (on the server.)
Any ideas on this one?
I use gFTP to transfer small files to/from one of my web sites. Are you using a proxy? In the Options, for FTP, there is an "Ignore PASV address". You may want to Google for this error and surf over to http://www.gftp.org/ Strange that you began getting these errors and I wonder if it has to do with your Fedora 11 box and not your server. GL