FTP client not working thru my new DNS/BIND enabled Linux gateway

Harold Pritchett harold at uga.edu
Thu Aug 17 18:40:03 UTC 2000


David Feldman wrote:
> 
> I have a windows machine connected via LAN to a Linux box; the Linux
> box (on another NIC) is connected to a DLS connection with a fixed IP
> address. The linux box uses IP Masquerading firewall to map local
> IP addresses to the DSL connection address; all has worked fine before.

This is not a BIND issue at all.

To do FTP via IP masq you must set up a special linux loadable
module to handle the multiple ports that FTP uses.  In my rc.firewall
file I have the following line:

	/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp

which makes it work.

Hope this helps

Harold



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