Hello, maybe one of you can help me with this problem. I am posting it here because it seems to be caused by a security mechanism. The ftp server on a web/mail/inet-gateway machine I am taking care of can no longer be accessed, ever since one of the secretaries decided to switch it off and on again because she could not access her files on a Windows server. I have made some changes on the ipchains rules since then, but ftp is open on the internal interface. Anyway, access is possible neither from the LAN, nor from the machine itself when I am logged on via ssh. I get this message on the shell: *** # ftp localhost Trying ::1... ftp: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection. *** and this turns up both in /var/log/warn and /var/log/messages: *** May 17 13:01:01 server in.ftpd[12726]: warning: can't get client address: Invalid argument May 17 13:01:01 server ftpd[12726]: getpeername (in.ftpd): Transport endpoint is not connected May 17 13:01:01 server inetd[813]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x1 May 17 13:01:01 server in.ftpd[12727]: warning: can't get client address: Invalid argument May 17 13:01:01 server ftpd[12727]: getpeername (in.ftpd): Transport endpoint is not connected May 17 13:01:01 server inetd[813]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x1 May 17 13:01:01 server in.ftpd[12728]: warning: can't get client address: Invalid argument May 17 13:01:01 server ftpd[12728]: getpeername (in.ftpd): Transport endpoint is not connected May 17 13:01:01 server inetd[813]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x1 May 17 13:01:01 server inetd[813]: ftp/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated *** ... repeated over and over again, with rising pids. Trying other ftp servers (by changing inetd.conf) resulted in the same, with in.ftpd changed to proftpd etc. BTW, the name of the machine is included in /etc/hosts. Have any of you had that problem? Please help, running out of time... Looking for old threads that included these error messages only turned up tons of hacking-related questions. Thank you! Matthias