Oddity with FTP

[Joe Siegler]

I've been using TC for ages now, and ran into something recently that never cropped up before. One server I logged into once in awhile moved. I'm not entirely sure what they did, but I never had an IP adddress in there, I had ftp.servername.com

Recently, I started logging in, and I'd get a popup that had this text in it..

"Server reports Local IP -> Redirect to: 123.456.789.000" (obviously with real IP in there).

The only prompt is a "cancel" button. If I hit that, the connection finishes, so it is acting like a "OK, here's a notice', and then you carry on. This isn't a HUGE problem, as I can log in, but I'm wondering if I can get TC to stop telling me that.

I even went and replaced ftp.server.com with the IP address in the popup message, and it still tells me that. Anyway to get TC to stop "stopping" me in the login with this notice?

Tkx.

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[ghisler(Author)]

It sounds like the server is misconfigured and reports an unroutable address like 192.168.0.1 in reply to the PASV command. Such addresses cannot be accessed over the internet. In addition, PASV data transfers do not work either unless their router is configured correctly. Try disabling passive mode. However, this may fail too if you have a local firewall which blocks the data connections. All you can do then is ask the server owner to fix their router settings.

[Joe Siegler]

It sounds like the server is misconfigured and reports an unroutable address like 192.168.0.1 in reply to the PASV command. Such addresses cannot be accessed over the internet. In addition, PASV data transfers do not work either unless their router is configured correctly. Try disabling passive mode. However, this may fail too if you have a local firewall which blocks the data connections. All you can do then is ask the server owner to fix their router settings.

Turning off passive mode let me log in without the popup coming up. Still, kind of odd that it showed at all.