[Swift-devel] can we disable the gridftp authentication for swift on BGP?

[Mihael Hategan]

On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 13:45 -0600, Zhao Zhang wrote:
> Hi, Ben
> 
> I tried regular ftp, the connection was refused:
> zzhang at login6.surveyor:~/swift/test> ftp ion-10.surveyor.alcf.anl.gov:59829
> ftp: connect: Connection refused
> ftp: Can't connect or login to host `ion-10.surveyor.alcf.anl.gov'
> 
> 
> Then as gridftp webpage said, I tried telnet that worked fine.
> zzhang at login6.surveyor:~/swift/test> telnet ion-10 59829
> Trying 172.16.3.10...
> Connected to ion-10.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 172.16.3.10 GridFTP Server 2.8 (gcc32dbg, 1217607445-63) [Globus 
> Toolkit 4.0.8] ready.

That's suspicious, because the ftp error suggests that telnet shouldn't
work either.