FileZilla: ENETUNREACH – Network unreachable - how to fix

FileZilla: ENETUNREACH – Network unreachable - come risolvere

A couple days ago I had to solve a strange issue regarding one of our machines seemingly unable to connect to a public FTP server: the PC in question was trying to connect using FileZilla, the well-known open-source FTP Client by FileZila Project available here.  The given error was the following:

ENETUNREACH – Network unreachable

Since the FTP server was perfectly reachable by other machines - also using FileZilla themselves as well - I started to look closer on the client. To cut it short, it turned out that the problem was related to the Kaspersky Antivirus TCP filter, which incorrectly behave with a FileZilla estabilished connection breaking it out.

Solution

Luckily enough this is a well-known problem on the FileZilla Project website, which even features a dedicated page explaining how to properly fix it. For your convenience, these are the required steps:

  • Double click on the Kasperskysystray icon (the red "K" near the system clock).
  • From the newly-opened windows, click on the "Settings" tab, then navigate to the "Anti-Virus protection" category.
  • In the new panel that will show, locate and click on "Firewall".
  • To the right part of the new window, click to the "Application network rules..." button.
  • Click on the "Application" column to filter the items.
  • Browse the item list until you find "FILEZILLA PROJECT": expand it by clicking to the "+" icon.
  • Click on the "filezilla.exe" entry: an info panel will appear.
  • Click on "Additional..." to show a new window, called "Application control rules".
  • Click on the "Exclusions" tab and check the following options:
    • "Do not inherit restrictions of the parent process"
    • "Do not scan network traffic"

That should do it. If this brief guide isn't enough, take a look to this great post by tDailyLama on the FileZilla official forum which basically explains it all and also has some pictures on the Kaspersky interface.

Happy connecting!

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6 Comments on “FileZilla: ENETUNREACH – Network unreachable - how to fix”

  1. Pingback: FileZilla: How to share Site Bookmarks between multiple PCs
  2. This is an AWESOME solution!! Thank you so much for this information I was going crazy. Thank you!

  3. It is not Kaspersky, Actually I do not have any antivirus or Firewall running on my PC but still have a message:

    Status: Connecting to 192.168.0.15:2221…
    Status: Connection attempt failed with “ENETUNREACH – Network unreachable”.
    Error: File transfer failed
    Status: Connecting to 192.168.0.15:2221…
    Status: Connection attempt failed with “ENETUNREACH – Network unreachable”.
    Error: Failed to retrieve directory listing

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