[Info-vax] Help to eliminate delay in establishing FTP connection (VMS V7.x on VAX with MultiNet V4.4)

[Scott Dorsey]

Steven Schweda  <sms.antinode at gmail.com> wrote:
>> [...] it may fall back to passive mode [...]
>
>   I wouldn't think that that was possible.  As I thought that I
>understood it, both sides need to agree on active-passive; it's not
>something that one side would "fall back to" on its own.

I have seen servers that would time out and then go into passive mode
when the connection failed.

>   I also wouldn't expect passive mode to affect the usual DNS problem.

It would not affect it at all.  This is part of what makes it a useful
diagnostic.
--scott
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