File transfers not completing from gwyn.tux.org aka ftp.xemacs.org

Dear Tux ftp admins, I am afraid I have been having some problems with your ftp server recently. The typical symptom is that a FTP transfer never finishes although all the data has arrived here. When I kill the ftp process and check the file, it is complete (I use it as part of the automatic XEmacs package installing process and there is a MD5 check included). Otherwise the response from the site is OK and transfers are swift so it seems not be a congestion problem. This used to occur (in the last weeks) about once every 3 transfers but now it is much more frequent. I also have heard from others much closer to you (network-wise) that they too have problems. Also at least one of the ftp.xemacs.org mirrors (sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch) has been become seriously out of date so I suspect they too have problems. An other interesting thing is that this happens with the Solaris 2.5.1 /bin/ftp and with netscape 4.0.x but wget and lynx seem to have no problems. See also the second transcript below I hope you can resolve the problem. I am glad to be of assistance if needed. Thank you for you time and thanks a lot for hosting ftp.xemacs.org! Jan Vroonhof P.S. Here is a typical transcript (/bin/ftp running under XEmacs) open ftp.xemacs.org Connected to gwyn.tux.org. 220 gwyn.tux.org FTP server (Version wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-18](1) Mon Aug 3 19:17:20 EDT 1998) ready. ftp> quote user "anonymous" 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. ftp> quote pass Turtle Power! 230-+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 230-| Welcome to ftp.tux.org! | 230-+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ . . . 230-Please read the file README 230- it was last modified on Tue Nov 17 23:14:32 1998 - 85 days ago 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> hash Hash mark printing on (8192 bytes/hash mark). ftp> type image 200 Type set to I. ftp> get /pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp /tmp/efsb8Cpzi.pgp 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for /pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp (44532 bytes). Process *ftp anonymous(a)ftp.xemacs.org* kill Here is an interesting tidbit: I started /bin/ftp by hand of on the comandline 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for package-index.LATEST.pgp (44532 bytes). ^C 226 Transfer complete. 225 ABOR command successful. local: package-index.LATEST.pgp remote: package-index.LATEST.pgp 44532 bytes received in 37 seconds (1.2 Kbytes/s) Notice how it sees the transfer is finished after I interrupted it with ^C. -- Jan Vroonhof http://www.math.ethz.ch/~vroonhof/ Mathematik, vroonhof ＠ math.ethz.ch HG E16, ETH-Zentrum, Tel: +41-1-6325456/25154 Raemistrasse 101, CH-8092 Zuerich. Fax: +41-1-6321085