FTP Transfer problems

Anybody else having FTP transfer problems? Trying to upload files to my account using FTP and i am having lots of problems with time outs, directory not available and periods where I can't connect to FTP at all. Using ftp.tradebit.com and my usual username and password. Trying to connect from the UK.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/14/2011 05:48AM by acprc.

Yes, I have experienced the exact same problems over the last week or so.
Sometimes my ftp client will not connect to the Tradebit ftp, even though other ftp sites have no problems with same software/client.

Well at least it sounds like it's not me then. Using Filezilla I thought it was the fact I was transferring a lot of files (180 files with total size 4G but it seems to drop out regardless of amount or file size.

Very frustrating....

hmmm, you are using ftp.tradebit.com? have you tried to directly address one of our FTP servers? ftp.tradebit rotates among:

pa.tradebit.com
pb
pc
pd

and maybe the client is trying to rotate after a while and looses it... would be great to hear some feedback on this!

Ralf

Hi Ralf,

yep using ftp.tradebit.com. I havent been able to access my directory for over 3 hours now. Filezilla goes through the motions as below:

Status: Resolving address of ftp.tradebit.com
Status: Connecting to 174.121.171.18:21...
Status: Connection established, waiting for welcome message...
Response: 220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [privsep] ----------
Response: 220-You are user number 1 of 500 allowed.
Response: 220-Local time is now 12:55. Server port: 21.
Response: 220-This is a private system - No anonymous login
Response: 220-IPv6 connections are also welcome on this server.
Response: 220 You will be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity.
Command: USER acprc
Response: 331 User acprc OK. Password required
Command: PASS ********
Response: 230-Your bandwidth usage is restricted
Response: 230-User acprc has group access to: users
Response: 230-OK. Current restricted directory is /
Response: 230-537 files used (0%) - authorized: 1000000 files
Response: 230 8701632 Kbytes used (8%) - authorized: 101376000 Kb
Command: SYST
Response: 215 UNIX Type: L8
Command: FEAT
Response: 211-Extensions supported:
Response: EPRT
Response: IDLE
Response: MDTM
Response: SIZE
Response: REST STREAM
Response: MLST type*;size*;sizd*;modify*;UNIX.mode*;UNIX.uid*;UNIX.gid*;unique*;
Response: MLSD
Response: ESTA
Response: PASV
Response: EPSV
Response: SPSV
Response: ESTP
Response: 211 End.
Status: Connected
Status: Retrieving directory listing...
Command: PWD
Response: 257 "/" is your current location
Command: TYPE I
Response: 200 TYPE is now 8-bit binary
Command: PASV
Response: 227 Entering Passive Mode (174,121,171,18,127,157)
Command: MLSD
Error: Connection timed out
Error: Failed to retrieve directory listing

pa.tradebit.com goes straight in no problems!

Thanks for your help on this.

Adam

Just tried again using pa.tradebit.com. Had the same issue as below:

Error: Connection timed out
Error: File transfer failed after transferring 327,680 bytes in 21 seconds
Status: Resolving address of pa.tradebit.com
Status: Connecting to 174.121.171.2:21...
Status: Connection established, waiting for welcome message...
Response: 220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [privsep] ----------
Response: 220-You are user number 10 of 500 allowed.
Response: 220-Local time is now 12:58. Server port: 21.
Response: 220-This is a private system - No anonymous login
Response: 220-IPv6 connections are also welcome on this server.
Response: 220 You will be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity.
Command: USER acprc
Response: 331 User acprc OK. Password required
Command: PASS ********
Error: Connection timed out
Error: File transfer failed after transferring 327,680 bytes in 21 seconds
Status: Resolving address of pa.tradebit.com
Status: Connecting to 174.121.171.2:21...
Status: Connection established, waiting for welcome message...
Response: 220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [privsep] ----------
Response: 220-You are user number 11 of 500 allowed.
Response: 220-Local time is now 12:58. Server port: 21.
Response: 220-This is a private system - No anonymous login
Response: 220-IPv6 connections are also welcome on this server.
Response: 220 You will be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity.
Command: USER acprc
Response: 331 User acprc OK. Password required
Command: PASS ********
Error: Connection timed out
Error: Could not connect to server

this is strange! we might have to increase the timeout on the FTP servers. It looks like the remote drives mount is timing out on the FTP server... hmmmm, a bit clueless here, sorry! I will read up on it!

Hi Ralf,

Thanks for looking into it. As of this morning though unable to use ftp.tradebit.com, pa or pb they all time out or won't connect. Can't upload anything!

Adam

Tried Filezilla and CuteFtp on ftp.tradebit.com and pa, pb, pc and pd. Both programmes time out after about 20 seconds of transfer on all 4 servers. Am I the only person having trouble with this?

Adam,
I just tested using smartftp on ftp.tradebit.com...working fine here.