[thelist] FTP problems!

Erik Mattheis gozz at gozz.com
Wed Feb 7 18:42:32 CST 2001


About our FTP problems:

Here is a post that describes the bug:

http://www.moongroup.com/archives/inet-arch/2000-07/msg00839.html

Only solution seems to be waiting for MS to issue a fix or using a 
Linux FTP client.

>>  One last shot ...
>>
>>  When I FTP into the default directory, my FTP client
>>  (regardless of what it is) always seems to wait for more
>>  data even though the entire directory has been listed:
>>
>>  Is it problematic for 226 Transfer complete to be
>>  received in the middle of listing a directory? Like this:
>>
>>  Then it just hangs.
>>
>>  Listing works fine for everything but the home directory.
>>
>>  It's Serv-U 2.5 on an NT box. Er NT boxes - every NT
>>  account I have does the same thing, every UNIX account I
>>  have works fine.
>>
>>  What could the problem be? Other NT accounts work fine
>>  ... like with different hosts.
>
>
>I have exactly the same problem. Also, I will download 99.99% of a 
>file, and it will hang on the last few bytes. And my ISP is using 
>Serv-U 2.5 as well. Are you experiencing this problem on a 
>Macintosh? A PC? Unix? (I'm on a Mac). I think it's Serv-U's fault, 
>now.
>
>You can check out
>
>http://www.framarstudios.com/misc/MSFTP_Sucks.zip
>
>for a more detailed discussion on the subject, as well as a TCP 
>trace of what's going on. Let's keep this conversation rolling, we 
>might figure it out, yet.
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