Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 39363
gftp 2.0.8-1 hangs retrieving directory listing
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:33:06 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-cvshome.2 i686) Description of problem: gftp fails to retrieve directory listings on all ftp sites. This problem was present in the version distributed with RH 7.1 and the most recent update. This becomes apparent immediately upon log in to any ftp site. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enter updates.redhat.com in remote site field 2. Click connect 3. Actual Results: The log window showed a successful login up to the LIST -aL command. The status field shows, "Receiving file names...", but the directory list window never fills in. Expected Results: A directory list should have shown up and I should have been able to browse the ftp site. Additional info:
Are you sure you have version 2.0.8? (rpm -q gftp)
[oberon@empress oberon]$ rpm -q gftp gftp-2.0.8-1 [oberon@empress oberon]$
Works fine for me. Are you behind some sort of firewall? Maybe updates.redhat.com was just hosed on the day you tried it?
You were probably correct. I haven't had time to work on my firewall yet, but I confirmed that the command line FTP client I was using to confirm that FTP connections work through my firewall defaults to passive mode and not active, as I was previously assuming. Thanks for your help and sorry about the bogus report.