We've figured out the cause of the problem. We have two different DSL
lines. Our router has a capability to intelligently balance accross
multiple DSL connections. One of the DSL line has problem with the
ftp connection. After we disabled the problematic DLS line, the
problem doesn't occur anymore.
Thanks,
Vince
On Mar 10, 5:38 pm, "vince" <law.vi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The server is fine (I tried it with other FTP servers too), I could
> make ftp connection to it from all the microsoft window based
> clients. The strange thing is, if I do a "ping hostname" first, then
> "ftp hostname" right after, it works. I am guessing something like
> the client lost its connection route to the server after the initial
> connection (after "ftp hostname", and before username is entered).
> But why only happens to the linux based machines? There must be some
> problem in the network (could be the router) that the window machines
> can overcome, but not the Linux. I would like to see if there are
> people who had encountered this problem before and had figured out the
> solution for it.
>
> Thanks,Vince
>
> On Mar 10, 5:57 am, "Thomas.Chang" <MingZhang2...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Mar 10, 6:24 am, "vince" <law.vi...@gmail.com> wrote:> Everything works fine before, but suddenly the error occurs since
> > > yesterday. Here is my machine configuration:
>
> > Can you figure out what operation caused the problem?
>
> > > I have three Window Server 2003 machines. Each one hosts a VMWare
> > > server, which in turn contains both window based and linux based
> > > virtual machines.
>
> > > All the window based virtural machines have no problem connecting to
> > > any outside world FTP server. But the linux based (i386-redhat-linux-
> > > gnu) virutal machines return the "421 Service not available, remote
> > > server has closed connection" error right after the "username" is
> > > entered. For instance:
>
> > > ftp> open wirefreethought.com
> > > Connected to wirefreethought.com (66.199.224.58).
> > > 220 (vsFTPd 2.0.1)
> > > Name (wirefreethought.com:root):vince
> > > 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
> > > Login failed.
> > > No control connection for command: Transport endpoint is not connected
>
> > > The strange thing is, if I first do the "ping hostname", then
> > > immediately follow by "ftp hostname", everything works fine. Any
> > > other times the same error occurs. Why does this happen? Everything
> > > worked fine before until yesterday.
>
> > > Any insight will be greatly appreciated!
>
> > I feel that it's the problem of the server. Maybe it cannot accept
> > more connections.
>
> > > Best Regards,
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