425 Failed to establish connection error on listing vsftpd CentOS

You may get this error while connecting your client to FTP server. FTP client getting error 425 Failed to establish connection, while listing directory contents. FTP server gets “connection refused” when establishing Active FTP to FTP client.

First of all Check

vi /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

check following parameters are uncommented and value is set as given

anonymous_enable=YES (This can be set as NO also in case of not allowing anonymous)
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
xferlog_std_format=YES
data_connection_timeout=120
listen=NO
pam_service_name=vsftpd
userlist_enable=YES
tcp_wrappers=YES


/etc/init.d/iptables stop

If above solution doesn’t work. run following command

modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp

if you have hosted over cloud or other have iptables on make sure vsftpd ports are open. Mostly it runs from 10000 or above.

You may get following error in listing.

200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV. 425 Failed to establish connection

it means vsftpd ftp login successful but failed to establish connection while directory listing. make sure your client is passive enable ftp connection.


pasv_enable=YES
pasv_max_port=10001
pasv_min_port=10000


Allow the same ports to be access in iptables.

iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 10000:10001 -j ACCEPT