Sam Nichols wrote:

> So with some help from Kenneth I've got a tunnel (on 20 and 21) to my
> linux server from my local machine and am running vsftpd on the server.
> Problem is when I 'ftp localhost' it gives me 'ftp: connect to address
> ::1: Connection refused' and won't connect. I did some testing and the
> tunnel works (I made a tunnel to 22 [ssh] and it worked fine), I think
> the problem is with vsftpd. I looked through the manual and all the
> vsftpd.conf options but nothing fixed it, any ideas?

May I suggest that you proceed directly to an SSH client with a chroot
cage on the server to get the same sort safe file-transfer environment,
and simply not bother with the FTP server?