[CentOS] Can't download large files

Fri Oct 9 01:49:46 UTC 2009
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

David Suhendrik wrote:
> Hi All,
> I've finish setup vsftpd as anonymous FTP server, and I also setup 
> apache for web service on my linux box. yesterday, I'm tried to put 
> CentOS 64 bit  image (.iso) size is 4.5GB and tried to download from my 
> computer. Apache and vsftpd work great, but I get some problem with 
> download size..
>
> When I download CentOS iso image [4.5GB], download process always 
> stopped at 4.2GB with errors:
> ==> SIZE CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso ... 4557455360
> ==> PASV ... done.    ==> REST 4294967295 ... done.   
> ==> RETR CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso ... done.
> Length: 4557455360 (4.2G), 262488065 (250M) remaining
>
> 94% [++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++   ] 4,294,967,295 --.-K/s   in 
> 0.001s 
>
> CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso: File too large, closing control connection.
>   

 


    *Well, FWIW, 2^32 = 4 ,294 ,967 ,296*


I've used SCP on > 4GB files without a problem.