Fw: [CentOS] FTP timout

 Thank you very much.
 I had turned firewall OFF and it is working.

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Greg Knaddison" <greg.knaddison at gmail.com>
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 4:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] FTP timout
>
>
> On 8/24/05, Abd El-Hameed Ayad <hamid at use-trade.com> wrote:
>> One of the servers is vsftpd & the other is pure-ftpd
>> if i logged to server running vsftpd and tried to download any file, i 
>> can
>> do that without problems regardless the size of the file.
>> But if i logged to the server running pure-ftpd & tried to upload the 
>> same
>> file, i get the time out message "Note here: The timeout always happens
>> after the file completely uploaded, the ftp client hangs then gives the
>> timeout message "
>>
>> Also, If i logged to the server running pure-ftpd, i can use ftp command 
>> to
>> download any file from vsftpd server but i can't upload the same file 
>> back
>> to the server if this file size is big
>>
>> Do you think that i should edit the configuration file for pure-ftd or
>> vsftpd? If yes, Which parameter i should change
>>
>
> This sounds to me like a proxy/firewall problem, not an FTP
> configuration problem.  My money says that the pure-ftpd box is behind
> a proxy/firewall that is checking to make sure that your ftp session
> is alive and at some point it says "no, I don't think it is" and it
> starts dropping packets.  I only say that because I've seen the same
> problem and it turned out to be firewall config.
>
> Maybe you could create an ssh tunnel for your ftp send send it over
> that and see if you get any difference.
>
> Greg
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