[Info-vax] preventing FTP from timing out

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-10-02 12:14:27 +0000, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply said:

>   HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.4 - ECO 7
> 
> ########################################################
> 
> 421 Service not available, remote server timed out. Connection closed.
> 122054124 bytes sent in 07:56 (250.35 KiB/s)
> 
> What causes this timeout?  (I thought one reason for hash was to keep
> things from timing out.)  The connection is otherwise OK, as far as I
> can tell.
> 
> Is there somehow I can increase the timeout?  At least if something is
> actually being transferred, I don't want it to time out.

Show your command log from the transfer, Philip?

Based on another reply, the transfer may well have completed and the 
timeout error occured on the prompt AFTER the transfer command; when 
the ftp daemon dropped the idle connection.

A CHECKSUM of the file, or an MD5 or SHA1 of the file, both before and 
after the transfer will tell you if the file transfered successfully.


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