Re: Is this happening to you?

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is not related in any way I'm sure, but I feel your pain.  Every night
we upload some files from our IBM i to GoDaddy.

For 3 nights in a row it failed.  I could not connect from FileZilla
either, so yesterday I opened a chat with GoDaddy.  The tech had me try all
kinds of things in FileZilla to no avail.  The connection would never even
open to ask for a userid.  After 90 minutes, I was finally told it is a
known issue, having nothing to do with Dilgard.  Their tech people are
working on it and when they figure it out, it will suddenly start working
again.

I want my 90 minutes back.

On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 10:46 AM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Can you ping them?
> Can you start up a 5250 session on them?
>
> If you start up a session try this command:
> WRKREGINF EXITPNT(QIBM_QTMF*)
> 8=Work with exit programs
> If there are any programs here then someone installed an exit point
> program and you now have to be approved.
>
> The other possibility is that your firewall team just cracked down and
> each incoming address has to be approved.  We tried that and quickly
> abandoned it.  With a mobile workforce it was too fluid.  Actually it was a
> MAJOR customer whose purchaser was doing ordering while at night classes
> that put the kibosh on that.
>
> Another possibility is that your coworker is using SFTP or FTPS and you're
> using plain FTP and they cracked down on that.  We used to allow ftp
> traffic from the internet and have since shut that down in favor of SFTP.
> We still allow ftp for outbound though.
>
> Rob Berendt
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> Suddenly, I can't use ftp from my PC to any of our servers.
> I get a 425 (not able to open data connection).
> I am remotely connected via VPN to our corporate network.
> But a co-worker, who is similarly remotely connected, can use ftp to our
> servers without problems.
>
> Nothing has changed on our servers (except a cache battery replacement
> on one of them).
> Nothing I know of has happened to my Windows 10 PC.
> The only thing I can think of is that the Norton Anti-virus product on
> my PC (it came free with our internet provider),
> has been replaced with something that supposedly provides the same
> protection through my router.
>
> Further, we have applications that use Scott Klement's SMTPR4 code and
> they all fail when they try to send email through our servers as well.
> Here's that error...
> ERROR: connect(): A remote host refused an attempted connect operation.
> connect(): A remote host refused an attempted connect operation.
>
> Why would requests from my PC to the server be rejected or fail, but the
> same requests from another PC in another location work fine?
> I've tried using the passive mode to no avail.
>
> --
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> Best Regards,
>
> Thomas Garvey
>
>
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