[thelist] FTP problems!

[Erik Mattheis]

Regarding my FTP difficulty saga, I perhaps have some concrete info ...

Background: I have difficulty FTPing to my NT accounts with a host, 
but can FTP to my UNIX accounts just fine. It's FTP Serv-U 2.5i 
running on NT 4/IIS 4. I can successfully FTP things with Fetch, but 
with lots of errors, nothing else on Win or Mac works, including FTP 
with the command-line.

Occasionally, the directory will list just fine, and the FTP 
transcript looks like this - this is on a UNIX box:

LIST
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for directory listing.
total 192
drwxr-xr-x   3 630      503          4096 Apr 21  2000 cgi-bin
-rw-r--r--   1 630      503           974 Apr 24  2000 flash.gif

[the rest of the directory listing]

-rw-r--r--   1 630      503         25646 Apr 24  2000 vaz.swf
-rw-r--r--   1 630      503           941 Sep 11  2000 vaz_circ.gif
226 Transfer complete.


For sessions that don't work, 226 is received while the directory 
listing is downloading (or sometimes not at all) and the transcript 
looks like below (also seems weird that my FTP client asks to 
identify the current directory more than once):

Connecting to 2xx.1xx.xx.xx port 21 (1/31/01 4:09:14 PM)
220 Serv-U FTP-Server v2.5i for WinSock ready...
USER junglejayne
331 User name okay, need password.
PASS
230 User logged in, proceed.
SYST
215 UNIX Type: L8
PWD
257 "/d:/http/njabr" is current directory.
PWD
257 "/d:/http/njabr" is current directory.
PWD
257 "/d:/http/njabr" is current directory.
PORT 192,168,1,100,190,61
200 PORT Command successful.
LIST
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
drwxrwxrwx   1 user     group           0 Jan 24 15:46 .
drwxrwxrwx   1 user     group           0 Jan 24 15:46 ..
-rwxrwxrwx   1 user     group         325 Aug  9 09:01 _footer.cfm
-rwxrwxrwx   1 user     group        2510 Feb 11  2000 _multiPageImages.cfm
-rwxrwxrwx   1 user     group        4032 Feb 23  2000 _stateSelectOptions.cfm
-rwxrwxrwx   1 user     group         935 Feb 11  2000 _topLinks.cfm
-rwxrwxrwx   1 user     group         521 Sep 21 02:02 _topmessage.cfm
-rwxrwxrwx   1 user     group        1815 Feb 11  2000 _topNavJS.cfm
drwxrwxrwx   1 user     group           0 Feb  9  2000 about
drwxrwxrwx   1 user     group           0 Mar  2  2000 advocacy
-rwxrwxrwx   1 user     group        7785 Jan  9 13:58 apollochron.gif
-rwxrwxrwx   1 user     group          99 Feb 11  2000 application.cfm
-rwxrwxrwx   1 user     group         431 Feb 27  2000 consumers.htm
drwxrwxrwx   1 user     group           0 Sep 21 18:56 education
drwxrwxrwx   1 user     group           0 Feb 27  2000 education.bak
drwxrwxrwx   1 user     group           0 Apr  5  2000 engines
drwxrwxrwx   1 user     group           0 Feb 21  2000 errors
-rwxrwxrwx   1 user     group        1927 Feb 23  2000 example.html
-rwxrwxrwx   1 user     group        1438 Feb  9  2000 favicon.ico
drwxrwxrwx   1 user     group           0 Jan 23 13:21 i
-rwxrwxrwx   1 user     group       11435 Apr  7  2000 index.bak.cfm
-rwxrwxrwx   1 user     group       11570 Sep 21 19:00 index.cfm
-rwxrwxrwx   1 user     group        2934 Jan 24 11:48 index2.cfm
-rwxrwxrwx   1 user     group        7493 Jan 24 20:31 index2.html
226 Transfer complete.
drwxrwxrwx   1 user     group           0 Nov 21 17:59 pdfs
drwxrwxrwx   1 user     group           0 Mar  3  2000 polls
drwxrwxrwx   1 user     group           0 Nov  2  1999 private-cgi-bin
drwxrwxrwx   1 user     group           0 May  7  2000 redirect
drwxrwxrwx   1 user     group           0 Feb  9  2000 related
-rwxrwxrwx   1 user     group        1165 Sep 22 01:12 styles.css
drwxrwxrwx   1 user     group           0 Feb 26  2000 superstars
drwxrwxrwx   1 user     group           0 Sep 21 18:59 teachersroom
ABOR
500 'ABOR': command not understood.


Previous to me sending the ABOR command, the FTP client thinks 
there's more data coming. This makes it impossible to FTP with 
anything I have tried other that Fetch, which allows me to abort the 
transfer of the listing.

Something that seems similar to me is that NT accounts on this 
network (including the host's site) never complete loading when 
accessed by a Mac ... horrors - I need to know when the onload event 
fires for a site I'm doing, but it never does, despite the fact the 
whole page has downloaded.

Also, if I delete everything that's not a subdirectory, the home 
directory always loads fine.

Also, it intermittantly works perfectly for a period of a few hours, 
then goes kaput again.

HELP! ME! SOMEBODY!

PS. Suggestions and questions like "Try passive mode" and "Are you 
behiond a firewall? Try bypassing it." are not needed ... the problem 
is outside of the network I'm on, as it's experienced by others with 
entirely different set ups and connections to the Internet, and I've 
tried everything I can regarding my firewall, including connecting a 
computer directly to the Internet.


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- Erik Mattheis
http://gozz.com/
(612) 827 3963