Hi, I having a problem connect via FTP, Error said
Status: Connecting to 178.128.101.122 178.128.101.122… Response: fzSftp started, protocol_version=9 Command: open “root@178.128.101.122 178.128.101.122” 22 Error: Could not connect to server
I have been able to connect before. but now I cant. Please help. Thank you.
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Hi @tor9togethers,
You’ll need to make sure you have your IP whitelisted on your droplet and your port opened.
To do so, SSH to your droplet
ssh root@YourDropletIP
Then once you are in, open port to 21(FTP)
iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT
The above will allow the port for everyone. If you want to allow it only for your IP, run the following
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX --sport 1024:65535 -d XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX --dport 21 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -s XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX --sport 21 -d XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX --dport 1024:65535 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
Please remember to change XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX with your actual IP address.
Additionally, you might want to allow traffic to your droplet for every port from your IP address, you can achieve this by running the following commands
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -d XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX -j ACCEPT
Again, please remember to change XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX to the actual IP address.
Regards, KDSys
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