FTP query

[Mike Keithley]

----- Original Message -----
From: Kenny Hitt <kenny at hittsjunk.net>
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Date: Wednesday, Mar 24, 2010 10:56:50
Subject: Re: FTP query

>
>
> Hi.
> Filezilla is also a Windows app.  If the problem is happening with 2
> different ftp programs, my guess is the problem might be on their
> end.
> When I had Comcast in the past, they gave their users web space.  
> Does the same thing happen if you upload a large file to Comcast's
> servers?
> 
No, it doesn't. I tried lftp with the same results. However, in reading the man page I noticed an option called verify-port, which was turned off by default. Turning it on fixed the problem for lftp. The man page is not clear to me as to exactly what verify-port does, but I think it makes sure that control and data ports don't change.

> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:43:15AM -0600, Mike Keithley wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > I am having a difficult time uploading large files to my website
> > hosted by godaddy.com. I am using ncftp, but the same problem
> > happens with lftp.
> > 
> > The difficulty is that while the transfer starts, it eventually
> > stops, waits about five minutes, restarts, stops, etc. In many
> > instances the transfer completes, but it sometimes times out. I
> > tried a large file into a unix shell account, and the transfer was
> > perfect. So it seems that the Godaddy server has difficulty keeping
> > contact with ncftp. One thing that I notice is that when the
> > transfer restarts, data move very quickly as if it had been
> > buffered. I use comcast.
> > 
> > I talked to Godaddy tech support, who are quite nice, and they
> > suggest using Filezilla. But as far as I can tell, Filezilla is a
> > GUI application.
> > 
> > Any help? Thank you.
> > 
> > Mike Keithley
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