Dear Ernesto Is it possible that the CuteFTPpro program in Windows might be to blame? I ask this because CuteFTP (I don't know about CuteFTPPro) is *adware*. When you install it, it puts a file called ADVERT.DLL somewhere in the \Windows directory (probably \WINDOWS\SYSTEM). This file _tracks the user's surfing habits_ (!!!) and periodically sends details of the sites that the user has visited to a server which is run by or on behalf of an Internet advertising agency called Radiate (previously called Aureate). Radiate use the information about the surfing preferences of various IP addresses to work out the sort of Internet adverts that the user is likely to be interested in and sells it on to the companies who subscribe to them. A real invasion of privacy, IMHO. I don't have any details about which IP ports are involved, but it is quite possible that something it does could be upsetting your firewall. This would also explain why you don't have problems with FTP in DOS. Note also: There are many other "free" or "demo" programs which install the ADVERT.DLL file. Also, this file is NOT removed (or certainly not always) when you uninstall the free/demo program!! I would check your Windows clients to see if there are copies of ADVERT.DLL anywhere. The file has been shown to cause Internet browser crashes, lockups and similar odd behaviour on Windows clients as well. Removing it may well cause CuteFTPpro to stop working so you may need to switch to another client, but it has to be better than what you have been going through for the last couple of months. Who knows - this may be the answer. Good success, anyway. Mark Dalley KiwiData Limited Tel: +44 1823 259748 Mbl: +44 7970 885808 ---- Grupo Dignitas wrote:
Friends: The days 5 and 7 of this month, I sent them two mail requesting suggestions about problems that I had (I have) using ftp... ... ... The company has hired a server ftp (ftp.thecompany.com.ar) with the phone company of our area (Telecom). In the area of systems, two people specify to make ftp to that server and to send for the same way information to the branches that are in other towns; the software that they use in you scheme them client it is the Windows Commander and CuteFTPpro. Now then, either that they use the passive or active mode to make ftp, the server Linux freezes, totally frozen; and it is necessary to restart the server. It doesn't always happen, and it is not known which are the conditions of the server in the moment of the freezing. I cannot have solved the problem for 2 months, I have proven almost everything, from different configurations of the SuSEfirewall2-2.1 until the update of the iptables (1.2.1 at 1.2.2), but anything works. In the inetd.conf has active the Proftpd, although I am not very sure that it is relevant. Now, from D.O.S. in a machine client I use ftp and works well, very well; and Linux doesn't freeze. During the hours of more work, that is to say, all the clients using Internet and mail, it is when more 'hang'; up to four times during the morning. But in the afternoon it diminishes a lot the frequency of the freezing, until any 'hang' in hours of the night. But or less this is what happens, I wait to have explained the problem well. Some help or orientation?.
Thanks folks (folks, no list)
Ernesto
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