Basic traceroute question – good traceroute, but connection times out

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Basic question: if I get a decent ping between hops in a traceroute reading, BUT I'm unable to connect to the host via FTP, what does that imply?

By connecting via FTP, I simply mean using FileZilla and the error is "Connection timed out".
However, my traceroute reading to that IP doesn't indicate a lag issue.

I've removed the IP addresses below, but this is what the reading looks like:

traceroute to 207.xxx.xxx.xx, 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1   <server>  0.788 ms  1.135 ms  1.135                                                                              ms
 2  <server>  0.677 ms  0.688 ms  0.679 ms
 3   <server>  4.526 ms  4.500 ms  4.500 m                                                                             s
 4   <server>  1.502 ms  1.507 ms  1.502 ms
 5   <server>  4.771 ms ae1.ar2.ord1.us.nla                                                                             yer.net (69.31.111.146)  4.761 ms  4.734 ms
 6   <server>  1.456 ms !N  1.300 ms

Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks!

Best Answer

Is there an ftp server listening on 207.x.x.x. ? Is there a a firewall and is it configured to allow connections to the ftp server?

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