Re: Microsoft FTP Server problem on W2K?

From: Pete Hornby (peter.hornby_at_unisys.com)
Date: 12/13/03 

Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:59:49 -0800

"Alun Jones [MS MVP]" <alun@texis.com> wrote in message
news:xUrCb.2901$mH4.2061@newssvr24.news.prodigy.com...
> In article <ekGxWqPwDHA.1596@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>, "DavidM"
> <scandal_123@cox.net> wrote:
> >Since the mainframe pushes files to our customers over a WAN connection,
the
> >goobs that designed our operational environment send 1.4GB transfers over
> >slow WAN links that take 5-8 hours a day to FTP! Not only does this hurt
> >the WAN and impact the mainframe all day long with this active
connection...
> >when there is a communications problem, we have to start all over.

One server which doesn't support restartable upload is, IIRC, the FTP server
in
IIS 5.

> FTP supports resumption of upload ... if your client decided to implement
> it. Trouble is, it's not quite an RFC yet - but the feature has been
> implemented in dozens of clients and servers over the course of at least a
> decade. And it's in a draft document that's already been approved to
become
> an RFC, IIRC.
>
> But it looks like the guys at Unisys are still living in the world of a
> decade or two ago. Sounds like Unisys :)

It's hard for us old guys to keep up with you youngsters :-)

Peter

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