FTP from Vagrant VM

[Andrew Vit]

I'm having trouble connecting to an outside server over FTP from my VM:

ftp> open ftp.example.com

Connected to ftp.example.com.

220 ::ffff:111.111.111.111 FTP server ready

ftp: setsockopt: Bad file descriptor

Name (ftp.example.com:deploy): xxx

---> USER xxx

331 Password required for xxx

Password:

---> PASS XXXX

230 User xxx logged in

---> SYST

215 UNIX Type: L8

Remote system type is UNIX.

Using binary mode to transfer files.

ftp> dir

ftp: setsockopt (ignored): Permission denied

---> PASV

227 Entered Passive Mode (72,32,147,147,70,33)

---> LIST

Then it hangs before sending any file list so... ^C

I'm wondering if FTP from the guest VM doesn't work through NAT? I expected it should work with PASV mode... Any ideas?

Andrew Vit

[rhelmer]

I have had this same problem. NAT should (but does not) work with PASV, I believe that this is a bug in Virtualbox's NAT implementation (I found a few bugs about this but not 100% sure).

I was able to work around the problem by temporarily setting the interface to Bridged in the Virtualbox UI.