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I'm trying to connect to a server via FTP and I'm having some problems. Server is a CentOS with Pure-FTPd.

My usual client is lftp which on this server gets stuck at "Making data connection". All google results about this suggest setting ftp:ssl-allow no but that didn't help in my case.

I also tried other clients and experienced the same behavior with ncftp and the graphical gnome gftp: connection is made but no data is transferred even for a simple ls.

However, connection and data transfer work with basic ftp client and from a Perl script using Net::FTP module.

Any suggestion on what options I can try to get the other clients working?

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Try using ftp in passive mode the relevant setting in lftp is ftp:passive-mode

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Nope, didn't work – Matteo Riva Mar 10 '11 at 9:15
try using a sniffer and see if you get some kind of error, or what is the difference between the successful clients and lftp. – Ophir Yoktan Mar 10 '11 at 10:00
Try /disabling/ passive mode set ftp:passive-mode off. I've had more trouble with it on than off lately. – Shadur Mar 10 '11 at 11:32
Not related to the actual problem, but whenever you have the choice, default to sftp rather than straight ftp. Doesn't suffer from the active/passive crap, works anywhere you can make an SSH connection to, and secure data transmission to boot. – Shadur Mar 10 '11 at 11:34
passive mode on or off seems to make no difference, and unfortunately I have no ssh access – Matteo Riva Mar 10 '11 at 15:03
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