wilson@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Nathan Wilson) (12/22/88)
Several people at my site are having intermittent problems getting ftp to work using NSCA Telnet. The site consists of the following machines: LocalTalk Network: 1 Kinetics FastPath 4 Mac II's (System 6.0.2 Finder 6.1 w/Multifinder 6.0.1) 1 LaserWriter NTX II Ethernet Network: 1 Kinetics FastPath 2 Sun 2/50's 1 Diskless Sun 2/120 1 Sun 2/120 Fileserver 1 Kinetics FastPath The Macs all use NCSA Telnet regularly and the fileserver is running CAP. The problem is that periodically giving the ftp command (as per Send FTP Command in the Network menu) just causes the command to be printed and process to start, but nothing gets printed out. Once this occurs no one can startup an ftp session until some unknown event occurs at which point things start working again. I have attempted to localize the problem with minimal success. Sometimes just power cycling the kinetics box is sufficient, other times shutting down all the macs, halting the fileserver, power cycling the kinetics box, rebooting the fileserver, and rebooting the macs is insufficient! Throughout all of this both existing and new telnet connections work just fine. If anyone has any idea what the problem might be please send me a note. Thanks in advance, Nathan Wilson Computer Scientist and System Administrator Teleos Research nathan@teleos.com (failing that nathan@ai.sri.com) or ...!decwrl!argosy!teleos!nathan PS Now that was weird. Prior to writing this note I tried starting up ftp and left it running to see what would happen. After a long while (~5 mins) I saw something print out in the telnet window. I assumed it was the sun timing out so I immediately quit. I then noticed that it had actually connected! I immediately tried to restart the connection with no success so far (it has now been >10mins). Oh well.