Help with FTP Server & Netgear MR814 Router

[ItchyAnus]

  Wolvereen said:

Wow, nothing worked. I have had friends helpign me out with hitting the site all night and still nothing. DNS translation is working fine (giving the correct IP). They have tried ot get in directly with the IP too. Its jsut that nothing seems to be getting past the router.

Ports 21, 20 and a range of ports above 1024 should be forwarded to the computer with the FTP server. Routers need to forward the ports to the computer with the FTP server. If a firewall(s) is running, they need to allow or forward those same port numbers as well.

Btw, if you don't want to bug your friends, you can test going to the FTP server yourself by ftp-ing to your external IP.

[Wolvereen]

Thanks for the response ItchAngus...

I didn't think it was possible to FTP to an external IP from an iinternal IP that is from a redirect? Basically I would think that this would cause some type of loop. I have only been able to get in by going through 127.0.0.1....

[dr3w2k3]

You should be able to get in yourself using your external IP...I do it all the time to test.

[ItchyAnus]

  Wolvereen said:

Thanks for the response ItchAngus...

I didn't think it was possible to FTP to an external IP from an iinternal IP that is from a redirect? Basically I would think that this would cause some type of loop. I have only been able to get in by going through 127.0.0.1....

It is possible to FTP to your external IP. Explaining why it's possible would go into how TCP works. That would take a pretty long post. ;)