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Posted: **2019-02-04 12:01**

Hi everyone,

since last week I am unable to use explicit FTP over TLS. As far as I am aware, it had been working without a problem before that. The insecure FTP connection still works, but as it is a potential security risk, I would rather want to get the encrypted connection going again.

I have reached out to my hosting provider, who told me that the fault seems to be a bug in FileZilla (?). Does anyone know, if this is being worked on?

This is the FTP Log output from FileZilla:

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Status:	Resolving address of example.url
Status:	Connecting to 123.123.123.123:21...
Status:	Connection established, waiting for welcome message...
Status:	Initializing TLS...
Status:	Verifying certificate...
Status:	TLS connection established.
Status:	Server does not support non-ASCII characters.
Status:	Logged in
Status:	Retrieving directory listing of "/www"...
Command:	CWD /www
Response:	250 CWD command successful
Command:	PWD
Response:	257 "/www" is the current directory
Command:	TYPE I
Response:	200 Type set to I
Command:	PASV
Response:	227 Entering Passive Mode (213,145,225,20,195,145).
Command:	LIST
Response:	150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for file list
Response:	425 Unable to build data connection: Operation not permitted
Error:	Failed to retrieve directory listing
Status:	Disconnected from server

Big thanks in advance for your help!

Posted: **2019-02-04 12:04**

That's a known bug in ProFTPd, the FTP server software running on the server machine. ProFTPd, while advertising support for TLS 1.3, does not implement it correctly. Please contact your server administrator or server hosting provider so that they in turn can contact ProFTPd support to have the server fixed.

Posted: **2019-02-04 12:39**

botg wrote: ↑
2019-02-04 12:04
That's a known bug in ProFTPd, the FTP server software running on the server machine. ProFTPd, while advertising support for TLS 1.3, does not implement it correctly. Please contact your server administrator or server hosting provider so that they in turn can contact ProFTPd support to have the server fixed.

I don't think that the problem lies with the server. I have tried connecting with WinSCP and it works without a problem. (FTP connection over TLS)
That's a good sign that the problem is with the FileZilla Client.

Posted: **2019-02-04 17:31**

Hello!
Today I made the same experience: Suddenly Filezilla doesn't open Server connection. First he accepts the login data, the certificate comes, and when I click for going further, the connection breaks because of timeout:

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Status:      	Auflösen der IP-Adresse für example.ch
Status:      	Verbinde mit 83.xx.xx.xx:21...
Status:      	Verbindung hergestellt, warte auf Willkommensnachricht...
Status:      	Initialisiere TLS...
Status:      	Überprüfe Zertifikat...
Status:      	TLS-Verbindung hergestellt.
Status:      	Angemeldet
Status:      	Empfange Verzeichnisinhalt...
Befehl:      	PWD
Antwort:    	257 "/" is the current directory
Befehl:      	TYPE I
Antwort:    	200 Type set to I
Befehl:      	PASV
Antwort:    	227 Entering Passive Mode (83,xx,xx,xx,142,28).
Befehl:      	MLSD
Fehler:      	Zeitüberschreitung der Verbindung nach 20 Sekunden Inaktivität
Fehler:      	Verzeichnisinhalt konnte nicht empfangen werden
Status:      	Verbindung zum Server getrennt

Maybe you find something to solve this problem? Thanks a lot in advance.

Posted: **2019-02-05 09:46**

I don't think that the problem lies with the server.

Why not?

I have tried connecting with WinSCP and it works without a problem. (FTP connection over TLS)

WinSCP is outdated, it does not even make use of TLS 1.3. Try using any different modern client that uses TLS 1.3

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