[cobalt-users] ftp problem between 2 Raq4s

[John K Mitchell <johnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there,

I'm hoping that one of you experts can help me.

I have two Raq4's next to each other, both are running ipchains with the 
others IP addresses in "accept" rules and also each has each others 
address in the hosts.allow file.

The problem I have is that one can not see the other to ftp / ping and 
the second has a strange ftp problem.

For example (the ip addresses have been changed to protect the innocent) 
:-
Problem 1

Server 1 can not ping server 2 and,
[root logs]# ftp 212.67.195.yyy
ftp: connect: No route to host
ftp>

The above seems to hang for about 10 seconds before returning the "no 
route to host" message


Problem 2
Server 2 can see server 1 (ping works ok) but
[root /etc]# ftp 212.67.195.xxx
Connected to 212.67.195.xxx.
220 ProFTPD 1.2.5 Server (ProFTPD) [ns3.server2.co.uk]
Name (212.67.195.xxx:admin): admin
331 Password required for admin.
Password:

Although this connect is supposed to connect to server1 (at the ip 
address given) it actually connects to server2 - I can prove this as the 
login will only take the password for server2 and when connected I can 
CD to /home/sites and I see the sites on server 2 not server 1

These two servers are both patched up to the last but 1 patch - they 
don't have the PHP patch but I don't think that this is the problem as I 
have been having the problem for some time now.

All I want to do is us raqbackup to copy a backup of server 1 to server 
2 and a backup of server 2 to server 1 - I do not need to import the 
files, just store them safely on the other machine.  Once I have the 
problem sorted I intend to create two new users (one on each machine) so 
that I'm not using "admin" but until I can get the two systems talking 
to each other I'm not bothering to set the users up ;-)

Anyone any ideas?

Thanks

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John K Mitchell

Forest Software Ltd
Web sites for the smaller business and charity.

Tel : 0870 747 4943
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