On 12-Apr-2004 Steve Fosdick wrote:
On 2004.04.12 10:09, bjsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk wrote:
Until recently (a few days ago) I have been happily uploading via FTP to my hosted web site. Suddenly I find I can start an upload but every attempt ends with 'waiting for transfer to complete' which it never does.
This sounds like a firewall problem as you suspect.
I'm not at all sure that it is a firewall problem because if I disable the firewall completely it still doesn't work.
Another possibility is to use FTP in passive mode, i.e. where the client tells the server that it wants the data connections to go the other way and that the server must passivelt wait for the client to make the data connection before sending. For a command line FTP you can probably enable this with 'passive'.
I'm already using passive mode.
Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain