FTP Problems

[Brad Schneider]

FYI, I could not download using either the Sun or Windows command line ftp.
The only thing that would work was Internet Explorer (both ironic and
frightening).  I suspect that you have a serious problem with your FTP
server.  Sample session text below...

Brad Schneider

Sun Solaris 2.7 on Sparc
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Connected to ftp.cvshome.org.
220 Features: a p .
Name (ftp.cvshome.org:snide): anonymous
230 Hi. No need to log in; I'm an anonymous ftp server.
ftp> ls
200 Okay.
150 Making transfer connection...


^C
425 Sorry, I couldn't make a connection: timed out.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
ftp> open ftp.cvshome.org
Connected to ftp.cvshome.org.
220 Features: a p .
Name (ftp.cvshome.org:snide):
230 Hi. No need to log in; I'm an anonymous ftp server.
ftp> ls
200 Okay.
150 Making transfer connection...
^C
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
ftp> open ftp.cvshome.org
Connected to ftp.cvshome.org.
220 Features: a p .
Name (ftp.cvshome.org:snide): anonymous
230 Hi. No need to log in; I'm an anonymous ftp server.
ftp> ls
200 Okay.
150 Making transfer connection...
lll


^C
425 Sorry, I couldn't make a connection: timed out.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
ftp> open ftp.cvshome.org
Connected to ftp.cvshome.org.
220 Features: a p .
Name (ftp.cvshome.org:snide):
230 Hi. No need to log in; I'm an anonymous ftp server.
ftp> cd cvs-1.11
250 "/cvs-1.11"
ftp> pwd
257 "/cvs-1.11"
ftp> bin
200 Okay, using binary.
ftp> hash
Hash mark printing on (8192 bytes/hash mark).
ftp> get cvs-1.11.tar.gz
200 Okay.
550 Sorry, I can't open that file: file does not exist.
ftp> get cvs-1.11.tar.gz
200 Okay.
550 Sorry, I can't open that file: file does not exist.

Windows 2000
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Connected to ftp.cvshome.org.
220 Features: a p .
User (ftp.cvshome.org:(none)):
230 Hi. No need to log in; I'm an anonymous ftp server.
ftp> cd cvs-1.11
250 "/cvs-1.11"
ftp> bin
200 Okay, using binary.
ftp> hash
Hash mark printing On  ftp: (2048 bytes/hash mark) .
ftp> get cvs-1.11.tar.gz
200 Okay.
550 Sorry, I can't open that file: file does not exist.
ftp> pwd
257 "/cvs-1.11"
ftp> ls
200 Okay.
550 Sorry, I can't open that file: file does not exist.

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