[EMBOSS] EMBOSS FTP Site Down?

[Chris Dagdigian]

FTP working is ok for me.

Server side we look OK (open-bio FTP server).

I'm also monitoring the IDS and Firewall alerts in real time due to  
some other non-OBF related issues -- the only real FTP issue is that  
the intrusion detection appliance thinks that it has seen a few  
FTP:EXPLOIT:BOUNCE-ATTACK incursions against the open-bio servers  
today. I'm 99% certain that this is a false alarm but I have not  
disabled that particular attack signature yet, if your client is  
trying odd things and redirections (perhaps to get past a NAT gateway  
or firewall) then maybe you are getting caught in this trap.

Random side note:  if anyone tries non-anonymous FTP for longer than  
2 minutes with more than 5 failed login attempts then they are  
candidates for instant inclusion into a "drop all packets from this  
IP" list maintained within the firewall.

Tim - if you send me the IP address of where you are trying to  
connect from I can see if there are any messages on our end.

-Chris
open-bio.org



On Jan 24, 2007, at 12:16 PM, Tim Troup wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is the EMBOSS FTP site down? It keeps timing out for me.
>
> ftp://emboss.open-bio.org/pub/EMBOSS
>