FTP not working for Brown Family Realty and FTP over IPv6

After the move to the new server at Rackspace, Brown Family Realty tried to use FTP and it didn’t work. One problem was that I did not have iptables rules to allow FTP. I also needed to run:

modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp

I’m now trying to get ftp to work via IPv6 and not having any luck. Will continue to investigate that. It turns out that an VSFTPD daemon can use only ONE protocol stack at a time. If I want IPv6 support, I need two config files. It turns out that the /etc/init.d/vsftpd script starts a vsftpd process for each .conf file found. Good! I’ll create one named vsftpd6.conf.

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