filezilla cannot retrieve directory listing

Because it is not the same address it will terminate, i.e. If that server is shielded from the Internet with NAT (Network Address Translation) your FileZilla client will receive this number as the IP for passive mode and compare it with its known public address. Note the first four numbers in the parenthesis 10,12,35,53. Because this problem is most likely linked to your own FTP server and you use vsftpd as your FTP server you can turn on ftp logging and then you will find a response that looks somehting like this: '227 Entering Passive Mode (10,12,35,53,75,191).' Unfortunately you cannot see an error even when you turn on debugging. That's because FileZilla is verifying something in the background. Note that the line Command: PASV asked for passive mode but it never completes. Command: PASV Error: Disconnected from server: ECONNABORTED - Connection aborted Error: Failed to retrieve directory listing Command: PWD Response: 257 '/' Command: TYPE I Response: 200 Switching to Binary mode. When you have a FTP server your FileZilla client may sort of hang like this: Status: Retrieving directory listing. In case you face the problem described here while setting up FTP in the Amazon cloud, I have a document Enable FTP for passive mode that has more detailed information specific to AWS EC2. Or maybe see other forms of error messages.

If you use a command line ftp client or other GUI FTP clients you may be just fine without seeing any problems.

Your FTP server in this case is usually also behind a firewall. The problem I explain here is usually related to FTP in passive mode and when you use VSFTPD on Linux as your FTP server and FileZilla as the FTP client.

Filezilla cannot retrieve directory listing