[cobalt-users] Re: FTP Aborts & Errors...

[Jay Summers <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Has anyone else had this problem???
> 
> Here's the dirt...
> 
> We have a Cobalt RaQ 3 which were are hosting web sites on from a location
> outside of our office...
> 
> At our office location we have a firewall and we are using DSL to connect
> to the Internet...
> 
> Often when we are FTPing to our RaQ our transfer gets aborted and sometimes
> we get file retrieval errors when we try to move through the directories...
> 
> In the log file for our firewall, I noticed these errors are registering as
> "TCP connection dropped" showing the source address as the IP for our RaQ
> and the the destination address (which in this case is on our network at
> the office) followed by port #113 - in the notes column it states
> "authentication" and the rule as "0" (whereas we do have incoming traffic
> blocked)...
> 
> I am wondering if this is indicating why we are getting these errors and
> aborts on our FTPing to the RaQ or if there is another reason.
> 
> I am aware of the fact that some Linux machines attempt to connect back to
> you through port 113 when you connect to them...  Again, I am not sure
> whether or not this is affecting our FTPing...
> 
> Anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening, or what we can do about
> it???
> 
> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated...
> 
> Thanks in advance...
> 
> -Kathleen

Hi Kathleen,

What ftp client are you using? I used to have the same problem with WS-FTP
for windoze and Dreamweaver for Macintosh. I think it had something to do
with our DSL router and NAT. Anyway, the way I fixed it was to click the
"Passive Transfers" box in WS-FTP. You might want to take a look in your ftp
client for a similar option.

HTH,
jay