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From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: ftp hang while trying to talk to cu20b.columbia.edu
Message-ID: <514@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 88 06:26:44 GMT
References: <8377@g.ms.uky.edu>
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Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University
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Posted: Thu Feb 18 01:26:44 1988

In article <8377@g.ms.uky.edu>, david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) writes:
> I'm experiencing some strange hangs while attempting to ftp files
> from cu20b.  Specifically, the pattern is that I make the connection,
> log in as anonymous and david@ms.uky.edu as the password.  Then I
> start transferring some data (either a directory listing or an
> actual get command) and after some short time (approximately 15K
> worth of data has been transmitted) the transfer hangs and stops
> doing things.

  According to the Kermit folks at Columbia, there are known problems at the
  cu20b end.  I experienced the same synptoms for several months (trying to
  get thru on a variety of machines) and finally gave up.  Used KERMSRV instead;
   
   greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny