Proftd error

Virtualmin
1

hi

when i start the proftpd server i get this error

  • Starting ftp server proftpd
  • warning: unable to determine IP address of ‘speeweb02.speedster-it.local’
  • error: no valid servers configured
  • Fatal: error processing configuration file ‘/etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf’
    …fail!

it just stopped working today

any help will be helpful

2

Any thoughts on what might have changed recently? A new hostname, different DNS, modifications to the /etc/hosts file?

I suspect the issue may come down to it not knowing how to resolve what “speeweb02.speedster-it.local” is, and if that’s true, a quick way to resolve it would be to add an entry for it in /etc/hosts.

That of course doesn’t figure out why it broke (or prevent it from happening again), that just gets your FTP server up and running again :slight_smile:
-Eric

3

As Eric has mentioned, your hostname is borked. A server must have a valid fully qualified domain name, or lots of things (mail, in particular, but as you’ve seen FTP also) will break.

4

nothing was changed.

but i added the host record and it works .

thanks