[Tfug] ftp question

[Shawn LaMaster]

> I routinely download small files from a site in Colorado a couple
> of times an hour from a collection of automated scripts.  Normally
> things work just fine, but for some reason yesterday things broke
> down.  When I chased it all down, my firewall was rejecting packets
> coming in from the target machine to my machine at various high
> ports (59000+) which broke the ftp link.  I've had speculation that
> these packets to high ports are part of the ftp process
> post-negotiation and that what I'm seeing is problems that might be
> due to increased latency or message-order shuffling or some other
> phenomenon between my firewall and the target machine.  When I did
> a traceroute, the route was about 12 hops longer than usual and was
> highly variable.  Today the traceroute shows what I consider to be
> the normal routing and I'm not having problems. 

Jim,
   I am not sure about the high ports, but I do know Qwest has 
been having some "issues" the last two days. Several T1's into my 
ISP (Opus1) have been failing.
    Shawn


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