FTP - connect: No route to host

[Fermiona81]

Hello,

When I try to FTP to some remote machine I get the error:
ftp: connect: No route to host

what is the problem?

thanks

[coopstah13]

No route to host means that there is no path to that machine from yours. Is this machine on your network?

[Fermiona81]

No it's not on my network. It's even in a different country. What can I do to access it?

[coopstah13]

you can find where the problem is if you use the command tracepath/traceroute/tracert

if the problem is outside your network there isn't anything you can do most likely, for one thing the server could be down

[Fermiona81]

When I access that machine, and then do FTP, it doesnt seem to have problems (but I dont know how to download the files to my local computer if im using ftp from within that machine. but when I use ftp from my local machine it times out :-S

that is, this works

ssh -X id@x.y.z
ftp x.y.z


but this doesnt
ftp x.y.z

[coopstah13]

you can use scp to copy files, is the ftp server listening? is there a firewall in place?

[Fermiona81]

When I did:

ssh -X id@x.y.z
ftp x.y.z
mget *

the files were not downloaded into my local machine although I was prompted with a successful download message!
Maybe they were downloaded to the remote machine instead of the local since I ssh-ed before ftp-ing?

When I use:
ftp x.y.z directly I get 'ftp: connect: No route to host'

thank you!

[Fermiona81]

yaaay it works now! i was supposed to use SFTP instead of just FTP thaaaaaaaanks

[coopstah13]

ssh means you were running that command on the remote host and downloading on the remote host