[Solved] vsftp issues

K3N8 · 2018-08-10 11:48:23

Hi,

I've been using vsftp for a couple of months. Before that I used ProFTP for several years. The are a couple of issues I've been experiencing.

1. Random connection losses
2. When using Bluefish directories keep disappearing

I think it has to do with the passive ports I had to set in order for the firewall to work. I used the wiki on Arch Linux to configurate.

Anybody had the same issues?

Thank you in advance.

Alexander

Last edited by K3N8 (2018-08-14 10:35:13)

K3N8 · 2018-08-13 08:55:00

I found that the main issue was because of fail2ban. I removed the vsftpd jail and the connection issues were gone. The Bluefish issie still remains.

schard · 2018-08-13 09:18:28

Logs would be helpful.
Did you consider this?

echo net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_helper=1 > /etc/sysctl.d/70-conntrack.conf

K3N8 · 2018-08-14 10:32:30

I added the following to my vsftpd.conf:

pasv_enable=yes
pasv_min_port=64000
pasv_max_port=64321

Then I added the passive ports to my firewall and everything worked just fine. It had nothing to do with fail2ban after all.

Now everything works like a charm.

Last edited by K3N8 (2018-08-14 10:33:24)

K3N8 · 2018-08-14 10:34:55

schard wrote:

Logs would be helpful.

I know, but there were no useful entries in my logfiles.

schard wrote:

Did you consider this?

echo net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_helper=1 > /etc/sysctl.d/70-conntrack.conf

I already solved it. Thank you.

Arch Linux