# ftp no route to host

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/ftp-no-route-to-host/35563>\
**Category:** Application Platform\
**Created:** [April 20, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/ftp-no-route-to-host/35563 "2021-04-20T14:59:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![kun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@kun](https://forums.suse.com/u/kun)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/ftp-no-route-to-host/35563/1 "2021-04-20T14:59:04Z")

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my os is suse12sp5, there’s no ftp. and stop the firewall. I can ping the distination ip succussfully.  
try this cmd, ftp xxx.xx.xx.xx. then I entered user and password.  
console returns as follow:

> 230 loggin succuss  
> max-retries exceed  
> fatal error: no route to host.  
> Then I down the os version to suse11, ftp connect succussfully.  
> would you please help me to solve this problem?

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**Author:** ![kun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@kun](https://forums.suse.com/u/kun)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 3:01pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/ftp-no-route-to-host/35563/2 "2021-04-20T15:01:18Z")

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please help me find a work-around on suse12sp5

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**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 3:46pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/ftp-no-route-to-host/35563/3 "2021-04-20T15:46:43Z")

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@kun Hi and welcome to the Forum 🙂  
Perhaps add some debug or try active mode to provide more information.

```auto
ftp -A -d xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

```

Could be the version of ftp running on the remote host as well, some incompatibility especially security, what is running on the remote vsftpd, other?

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**Author:** ![kun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@kun](https://forums.suse.com/u/kun)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 1:16am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/ftp-no-route-to-host/35563/4 "2021-04-21T01:16:47Z")

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downgrade to suse11 ?ftp to the third party worked  
on suse12?we use lftp.

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**Author:** ![kun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@kun](https://forums.suse.com/u/kun)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 1:34am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/ftp-no-route-to-host/35563/5 "2021-04-21T01:34:13Z")

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> lftp  
> set passive-mod off  
> worked!!!  
> @malcolmlewis very much thanks,sir

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**Author:** ![asif](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c37758/32.png) [@asif](https://forums.suse.com/u/asif)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2021, 2:19pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/ftp-no-route-to-host/35563/6 "2021-06-04T14:19:39Z")

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i set passive-mod off its working for me thanks for the post \<3  
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