ftp connection refused

[Matthew Godycki]

Looks to me like the connections are being nuked period, it may not have anything to do with ftp at all.

I would check your hosts.allow/hosts.deny in /etc.  I generally see such messages when I try ssh/telnet/ftp into my box from some location that's not in my hosts.allow file.  This should only be an issue if your hosts.deny is set up to nuke everyone (which imho is generally a good idea):
ALL : ALL

Cheers,
-Matt
> 
> From: aitken-BwLjziHGQLusTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org
> Date: 2003/10/22 Wed PM 03:41:16 EDT
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: [TLUG]: ftp connection refused
> 
> I am getting the following error trying to ftp into a machine:
> 
> bash-2.05a$ ftp 192.168.0.1
> ftp: connect: Connection refused
> ftp>
> 
> and, similarly ...
> 
> 
> [chris at hons800 chris]$ ftp 192.168.0.2
> ftp: connect: Connection refused
> ftp>
> 
> It appears that the ftp client is working - just not connecting.
> 
> I can PING both boxes from each other.
> 
> Both boxes run rh 7.3.
> 
> I am working through the 30-screen man page for ftp but it just has
> commands
> and options - no troubleshooting.
> 
> I know there are lots of other file transfer utilities, all of them
> probably more
> secure than ftp. However, I want to use ftp for a while and then learn
> another.
> 
> I ran /usr/sbin/ntsysv at each computer and the available services are
> vsftpd,
> wu-ftp, and tftp - all of them are *not* checked for automatic startup.
> But,
> again, I don't think the client or the daemon are the culprits here -
> just the
> connection.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated. I'll keep reading the man page in the
> meantime -
> I'll need all that information anyway.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris
> 
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