Re: ftp mget failing

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are you going through a firewall?   Possibly some of the ephemeral ports 
are blocked?

Terrence Enger wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I regularly do an ftp mget from an example of our favourite platform
> (V5R2M0) to my PC (ubuntu hardy).  I am making a local copy of a source
> file.
>
> About half the time, after transferring lots of members, the job pauses
> indefinitely with the last few messages being something like ...
>
>     250 File transfer completed successfully.
>     11826 bytes received in 0.26 secs (43.8 kB/s)
>     local: QALLSRC.FILE/AA4614.MBR remote: QALLSRC.FILE/AA4614.MBR
>     200 PORT subcommand request successful.
>
> When running from an expect script, the script eventually times out.
> Interactively, I press ctl-C, and ftp tells me
>
>     421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
>     receive aborted
>
> Can anybody suggest something I can do to track down the cause of my
> problem?  I have authority to WRKJOB on the ftp server job only while
> things are still working, not thereafter.  <sigh />
>
> Cheers,
> Terry.