Can't upload to REVU

Michael Casadevall sonicmctails at gmail.com
Fri Aug 1 19:47:29 BST 2008


The easiest solution would simply be to use passive mode. Its likely an
issue that people upload to old address vs revu.ubuntuwire.com

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Stefan Potyra <
stefan.potyra at informatik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thursday 31 July 2008 20:09:30 Matvey Kozhev wrote:
> > It says:
> >
> > Error '425 Security: Bad IP connecting.' during ftp transfer of
> > libbrowserlauncher2-java_1.3.dfsg-0ubuntu1.dsc
>
> hm... interesting, doesn't appear anywhere in the logs (only that the
> upload
> failed). However I'm quite sure that bit in vsftpd is responsible in what
> you're seeing:
>
> int
> vsf_ftpdataio_get_pasv_fd(struct vsf_session* p_sess)
> [..]
>  /* SECURITY:
>   * Reject the connection if it wasn't from the same IP as the
>   * control connection.
>   */
>  if (!tunable_pasv_promiscuous)
>  {
>    if (!vsf_sysutil_sockaddr_addr_equal(p_sess->p_remote_addr,
> p_accept_addr))
>    {
>      vsf_cmdio_write(p_sess, FTP_BADSENDCONN, "Security: Bad IP
> connecting.");
>      vsf_sysutil_close(remote_fd);
>      vsf_sysutil_sockaddr_clear(&p_accept_addr);
>      return -1;
>    }
>  }
>
> Now I don't have the best knowledge about networking stuff, but it looks
> like
> the passive ftp data connection seen by vsftpd on spooky doesn't originate
> from the same address. The question is what this tells us (maybe someone is
> intercepting this connections? s.th. else?) or how to fix it. Maybe using
> active instead of passive mode helps? Anyone with better network knowledge
> got some more hints?
>
> Cheers,
>      Stefan.
>
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