john@uw-nsr.UUCP (John Sambrook) (08/25/88)
I've run into a problem with ftp(1) and would appreciate some advice. I would like to move some files via anonymous FTP from one system to another. The systems in questions are Data General MV/10000 systems running DG/UX 3.11 and DG/UX TCP/IP 2.02. I am, of course, able to login to the remote system as user "anonymous", password "guest". If I then do an "ls" command I get a listing of the three directories (bin, etc, pub) in ~ftp, as I expect. So far, nothing unusual. Now, if I try to get a long list, with "ls -l", the connection seems to hang. Believe me, I have waited for periods of thirty minutes but have never gotten past this hang condition. I have the same problem if I try to copy the files I want from ~ftp/pub. The connection is established as expected, with the "PORT" and "Opening data connection" messages printed on our end, but no data ever flows. I have hash mark printing on. I have tried several different systems locally (including VMS, AOS/VS, 4.3BSD) to fetch the files but I still have the hang condition. I don't know if it is related, but when I do "stat" on our local ftp(1) system it prints the page size of both "ftp-user" and "ftp-daemon" as 2048 bytes. Is it possible that this is too long and that some type of fragmentation is occuring? Sorry I can't be more concrete; I don't have a lot of experience debugging TCP/IP problems, and even fewer tools for doing so. Please feel free to send mail; I'll post a summary of responses. If you would rather post a response that's fine too, though I doubt many other people have this problem. Thank you very much, John Sambrook Internet: john@nsr.bioeng.washington.edu University of Washington RC-05 UUCP: uw-nsr!john Seattle, Washington 98195 Dial: (206) 548-4386 -- John Sambrook Internet: john@nsr.bioeng.washington.edu University of Washington RC-05 UUCP: uw-nsr!john Seattle, Washington 98195 Dial: (206) 548-4386