FTP Error and can't ping?

[Dag Andresen]

EDIT: I thought I had fixed it, but I had not... it's going on and off... If I can not ping domain.com in ssh I can not access ftp either.. then suddenly both works... on and off....

Hi

When my server has been running for some minutes the FTP server just stops working! It works fine after a reboot, but as some time passes I can't login anymore. I recieve these errors:
[R] Connected to domain.com
[R] 425 Sorry, invalid address given

Then suddenly it might work again, on and off...

Also in SSH when I write "ping domain.com" it doesn't work and just says "connect: Invalid argument"... I am trying to install squirrelmail and it just won't work because it can't connect (

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Err http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main dictionaries-common 1.2.1ubuntu1
  Cannot initiate the connection to nl.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (213.136.29.211). - connect (22: Invalid argument) [IP: 213.136.29.211 80]
Err http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main ispell 3.1.20.0-4.5ubuntu1
  Cannot initiate the connection to nl.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (213.136.29.211). - connect (22: Invalid argument) [IP: 213.136.29.211 80]
Err http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main iamerican 3.1.20.0-4.5ubuntu1
  Cannot initiate the connection to nl.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (213.136.29.211). - connect (22: Invalid argument) [IP: 213.136.29.211 80]
Err http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main php5-mhash 5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6
  Cannot initiate the connection to nl.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (213.136.29.211). - connect (22: Invalid argument) [IP: 213.136.29.211 80]
Err http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe squirrelmail 2:1.4.19-1
  Cannot initiate the connection to nl.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (213.136.29.211). - connect (22: Invalid argument) [IP: 213.136.29.211 80]
Err http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe squirrelmail-locales 1.4.13-20071220-1
  Cannot initiate the connection to nl.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (213.136.29.211). - connect (22: Invalid argument) [IP: 213.136.29.211 80]
Err http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe squirrelmail-viewashtml 3.8-2
  Cannot initiate the connection to nl.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (213.136.29.211). - connect (22: Invalid argument) [IP: 213.136.29.211 80]
Err http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main wamerican 6-3
  Cannot initiate the connection to nl.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (213.136.29.211). - connect (22: Invalid argument) [IP: 213.136.29.211 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/dictionaries-common/dictionaries-common_1.2.1ubuntu1_all.deb: Cannot initiate the connection to nl.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (213.136.29.211). - connect (22: Invalid argument) [IP: 213.136.29.211 80]

[till]

Seems to be a problem with your nameserver. FTP does not work too when the nameservers are down.

Check /etc/resolv.conf and make sure that all nameservers listed there are working properly.

[Dag Andresen]

Hey,

the nameservers looks fine.... from resolv.conf:
nameserver 81.167.36.3
nameserver 81.167.36.11

Could there be something else?

[till]

Or maybe your internet connection was temporarily down.

[Dag Andresen]

It can't be, since I could access the server using both ssh and web.

[till]

The log says that the connection was not possible at the moment were apt was executed. So there must have been a problem with the connection or name resolving at that time.