Comments on: FTP Error 425 "Can’t open data connection": Time To Reset Your Router And Modem http://www.dougv.com/2009/02/10/ftp-error-425-cant-open-data-connection-time-to-reset-your-router-and-modem/ ASP.NET, PHP, XML, JavaScript, DOM, Web geekery Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:22:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Del Boy http://www.dougv.com/2009/02/10/ftp-error-425-cant-open-data-connection-time-to-reset-your-router-and-modem/#comment-202 Del Boy Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:07:58 +0000 http://www.dougv.com/blog/?p=1709#comment-202 Been using Filezilla client to maintain a remote website. Worked fine for a while then whenever I connect to any remote server - regardless of ftp server it screws up my router big style. All network traffic is stopped until the router is re-booted. Then when I try to ftp again ..... reset the router.... blah blah. The fact that it can do this is surely a bug. Never encountered this with FTP before. Now it's impossible to use filezilla. Shame. Been using Filezilla client to maintain a remote website. Worked fine for a while then whenever I connect to any remote server – regardless of ftp server it screws up my router big style. All network traffic is stopped until the router is re-booted. Then when I try to ftp again ….. reset the router…. blah blah. The fact that it can do this is surely a bug. Never encountered this with FTP before.

Now it’s impossible to use filezilla. Shame.

]]> By: Doug Vanderweide http://www.dougv.com/2009/02/10/ftp-error-425-cant-open-data-connection-time-to-reset-your-router-and-modem/#comment-201 Doug Vanderweide Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:20:06 +0000 http://www.dougv.com/blog/?p=1709#comment-201 @GG: Yes. Turn your router off, then turn it back on again. @GG: Yes. Turn your router off, then turn it back on again.

]]> By: GG http://www.dougv.com/2009/02/10/ftp-error-425-cant-open-data-connection-time-to-reset-your-router-and-modem/#comment-200 GG Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:26:07 +0000 http://www.dougv.com/blog/?p=1709#comment-200 Hello, i just made my furt FTP server, with filezilla, and i have the 425 error! we have an cisco 1811 router.. so, i have to turn down the power? and then the problem is solved? or what do i have to do, I don's know that, much about FTP. this FTP goes by a DMZ. G, Hello,

i just made my furt FTP server, with filezilla, and i have the 425 error! we have an cisco 1811 router.. so, i have to turn down the power? and then the problem is solved?

or what do i have to do, I don’s know that, much about FTP. this FTP goes by a DMZ.

G,

]]> By: Doug Vanderweide http://www.dougv.com/2009/02/10/ftp-error-425-cant-open-data-connection-time-to-reset-your-router-and-modem/#comment-199 Doug Vanderweide Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:06:52 +0000 http://www.dougv.com/blog/?p=1709#comment-199 @Wall: It's unfortunate your problem was not related to your router. However, any problem you have with the 425 error message is directly related to an inability of Filezilla server to properly address the client, and that is always caused by a networking problem of some sort. It is possible one of the problems noted at other Web sites might have been the cause. I am glad you were able to find an alternative solution to your FTP needs. For most people, if Filezilla server proves problematic, an alternative free or pay solution is probably a good option, as Filezilla server provides no added security or features that are not available in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_FTP_server_software" rel="nofollow">a number of other server implementations</a>. While your troubles with Filezilla server can reasonably make you question its value, even if it is free, I hardly think Filezilla's cranky behavior on connectivity is a sweeping indictment of the open source movement. Just about everything powering this blog is open source, for example -- from the server's OS to the HTTP daemon to the blogging software to the Web browser being used to post this reply -- and your comment got through just fine. I would agree with you, however, if you said that the problem with the open source movement is that too much attention is paid to making new things, rather than improving old things, documenting what has been made or supporting end users. Most open-source software projects, Filezilla server included, are in serious want of a halfway decent manual or someone to call in an emergency. @Wall: It’s unfortunate your problem was not related to your router. However, any problem you have with the 425 error message is directly related to an inability of Filezilla server to properly address the client, and that is always caused by a networking problem of some sort. It is possible one of the problems noted at other Web sites might have been the cause.

I am glad you were able to find an alternative solution to your FTP needs. For most people, if Filezilla server proves problematic, an alternative free or pay solution is probably a good option, as Filezilla server provides no added security or features that are not available in a number of other server implementations.

While your troubles with Filezilla server can reasonably make you question its value, even if it is free, I hardly think Filezilla’s cranky behavior on connectivity is a sweeping indictment of the open source movement. Just about everything powering this blog is open source, for example — from the server’s OS to the HTTP daemon to the blogging software to the Web browser being used to post this reply — and your comment got through just fine.

I would agree with you, however, if you said that the problem with the open source movement is that too much attention is paid to making new things, rather than improving old things, documenting what has been made or supporting end users. Most open-source software projects, Filezilla server included, are in serious want of a halfway decent manual or someone to call in an emergency.

]]> By: Wall http://www.dougv.com/2009/02/10/ftp-error-425-cant-open-data-connection-time-to-reset-your-router-and-modem/#comment-198 Wall Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:06:34 +0000 http://www.dougv.com/blog/?p=1709#comment-198 Did not work Switching to a different FTP server, however, did. The router turned out not to be the issue at all in the first place, it was Filezilla's poorly written (or, as you very charitably put it, "strict implementation") Even Filezilla server would not talk to the Filezilla client, but the Filezilla client would communicate with a different piece of FTP software. And this is why people don't take open source software seriously. Did not work

Switching to a different FTP server, however, did.
The router turned out not to be the issue at all in the first place, it was Filezilla’s poorly written (or, as you very charitably put it, “strict implementation”)

Even Filezilla server would not talk to the Filezilla client, but the Filezilla client would communicate with a different piece of FTP software.

And this is why people don’t take open source software seriously.

]]> By: Jarno http://www.dougv.com/2009/02/10/ftp-error-425-cant-open-data-connection-time-to-reset-your-router-and-modem/#comment-197 Jarno Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:33:09 +0000 http://www.dougv.com/blog/?p=1709#comment-197 Thanks a lot, this was the solution. Great description! Thanks a lot, this was the solution.
Great description!

]]> By: polishpaul http://www.dougv.com/2009/02/10/ftp-error-425-cant-open-data-connection-time-to-reset-your-router-and-modem/#comment-196 polishpaul Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:08:48 +0000 http://www.dougv.com/blog/?p=1709#comment-196 There's an old saying "if all else fails, reboot." I hate when the reason for a faulty FTP connection is "a malicioius router or firewall" as many forum posters tend to say. The simple reboot fixed this issue after an IP change. There’s an old saying “if all else fails, reboot.” I hate when the reason for a faulty FTP connection is “a malicioius router or firewall” as many forum posters tend to say. The simple reboot fixed this issue after an IP change.

]]> By: Carl http://www.dougv.com/2009/02/10/ftp-error-425-cant-open-data-connection-time-to-reset-your-router-and-modem/#comment-195 Carl Mon, 18 May 2009 12:36:02 +0000 http://www.dougv.com/blog/?p=1709#comment-195 Thanks a lot for this info! Really annoying problem. And thanks for the amusing description. ;-) Regards Carl Gustafsson Thanks a lot for this info! Really annoying problem.
And thanks for the amusing description. ;-)

Regards
Carl Gustafsson

]]> By: טכנאי מחשב Alon http://www.dougv.com/2009/02/10/ftp-error-425-cant-open-data-connection-time-to-reset-your-router-and-modem/#comment-194 טכנאי מחשב Alon Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:30:05 +0000 http://www.dougv.com/blog/?p=1709#comment-194 I appreciate the information and advice you have given in this article.You saved me time. Best Regards, Alon. I appreciate the information and advice you have given in this article.You saved me time.
Best Regards, Alon.

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