[ale] FTP folder view not working in Konqueror

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Sunday 27 June 2004 09:38 pm, Jay wrote:
> I have a weird problem on Mandrake 10.0 machines, I cant seem to get a
> folder view in konqueror for my ftp sites.  It works on other ftp sites,
> but not my own.  I know that sounds messed up, but here's an example.
> running Mandrake 10.0 on both the server and the clients, if I go to
> ftp://metafero.elon.edu for example, it wont show any folders, but if I
> do it in IE or firefox it works fine.  Same if I try another ftp site on
> the Mandrake box, it will show folder view properly.  This also happens
> from ANY mandrake 10.0 box I try it on, it wont show folders for the ftp
> sites I admin with proftpd on mandrake 10.  I'm wondering if there is a
> proftpd config problem?  I used to run proftpd on mandrake 9.2 and never
> had this problem.
>
> What about this isnt communicating properly here?  is this a config
> thing in proftpd?  Bug in Konqueror?  Mandrake?  It's not that big a
> deal but it sure is annoying.

Well, it displays in my Konq, but it took minutes to show up.  I wonder if the 
site is doing some reverse DNS lookup, but when it fails it proceeds anyway.  
Or maybe it does identd first, something like that.

Michael