Re: Strange FTP error
From: Arthur Dent (probe1_at_3xt.org)
Date: 03/16/04
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Date: 16 Mar 2004 14:37:27 -0800
Perhaps the control channel is timing out (do you have any NAT devices
or firewalls between you and the server?). Try setting TCP keepalive
to something like 1 minute (ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_keepalive_interval
60000) and see if your problems go away.
Sasha <spamit@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<TheMailAgent.d02098633d664@2d342cf321817da12e5a1>...
> Almost for sure this have nothing to do with solaris, so this is OT here
> but maybe of interest and I don't know where to post this :-(
>
> I am downloading a large file from FTP. I use wget on solaris and the
> server is Serv-U (windows). The problem is that then I download say
> 98765432 bytes of file the connection is stuck. Then I am trying to
> restart download it stucks without any progress (although all commands
> goes OK nothing is sent thru data connection). I have started transfer
> again and get stuck in the same place.
>
> I had guessed that where is a problem with disk (e.g. bad sector), so I
> just have [a]dded 512 zeros to the file and magicaly restart started to
> work (the file is avi so I don't realy care about minor mistakes).
>
> In that time I contacted the admin of that server and ask him to check
> what is wrong with files: he said that he can localy copy the file so
> there is no bad sectors (also he noted that the files are on a RAID so
> error is unlikely)
>
> Next time the transfer stucks I added just one zero and the transfer
> continues. After some time I realized that I can in fact truncate the file
> by few bytes and restart so now I can download `digital' files as well.
> Still, I have absolutely no idea what can be the reason???
>
> Any ideas, or maybe anyone saw similiar thing before?
>
> Regards,
> ASK
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