Bug 8463 - firewall breaks wu-ftp due to ident
Summary: firewall breaks wu-ftp due to ident
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: wu-ftpd
Version: 6.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-01-14 04:04 UTC by Karl O. Pinc
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-02-03 21:04:01 UTC
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Description Karl O. Pinc 2000-01-14 04:04:59 UTC
Ident seems to be compiled into wu-ftpd.  We're running a server outside of
our firewall, and couldn't get into it from inside the firewall.  Turns out
the firewall is eating the ident packets and not sending a "icmp
unreachable" response back to the server.  This causes the server to hang
there and never (seemingly) deliver a login prompt.

Adding -I0 to the in.ftpd command line in /etc/inetd.conf fixes this.

I don't know if our firewall configuration is "normal" or not, but we
probably can't get to any 6.1 redhat ftp servers out there on the net
either.  Others may or may not have the same problem.

(FYI: We've had ident problems with sendmail before too...)

P.S.  It's annoying not to be able to search the mailing lists any longer.

Comment 1 Karl O. Pinc 2000-01-14 04:43:59 UTC
I take it back.  This problem is happening on a RedHat 6.0 system, not 6.1.

Comment 2 Elliot Lee 2000-02-03 21:04:59 UTC
A final policy decision is up to the system administrator - the RH default works
for most people, and the mechanism for selecting policy does work.


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