cycling.finial.com

I’ve been trying to work on the site, but it’s getting near impossible.

The FTP connection to the IPP just isn’t working. I’ve been round and round with them and nothing is getting resolved. I’ve changed the settings in my client and things improve for a short time, but it quickly degrades until it’s unusable.

Because I’m doing DB stuff, I have to debug on the actual server instead of my local machine. I can’t get the remote MySQL to accept a connection from the local machine, so I’m forced to upload each change as it’s made.

I Dreamweaver, I’ve now changed the settings to be “Passive FTP” and I’ve turned off the “User FTP Performance Optimization”. Passive FTP seems to work a bit better than whatever the alternative to that is, but it only works for a short time. Here’s a log of what I go through in WS_FTP:


Connecting to 69.73.171.90:21
Connected to 69.73.171.90:21 in 0.000000 seconds, Waiting for Server Response
220———- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [TLS] ———-
220-You are user number 2 of 50 allowed.
220-Local time is now 20:53. Server port: 21.
220-IPv6 connections are also welcome on this server.
220 You will be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity.
Host type (1): Automatic detect
USER (user)
331 User (user) OK. Password required
PASS (hidden)
Error reading response from server.

Connecting to 69.73.171.90:21
Connected to 69.73.171.90:21 in 0.000000 seconds, Waiting for Server Response
220———- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [TLS] ———-
220-You are user number 4 of 50 allowed.
220-Local time is now 20:54. Server port: 21.
220-IPv6 connections are also welcome on this server.
220 You will be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity.
Host type (1): Automatic detect
USER (user)
331 User (user) OK. Password required
PASS (hidden)
Error reading response from server.

Connecting to 69.73.171.90:21
Connected to 69.73.171.90:21 in 0.000000 seconds, Waiting for Server Response
220———- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [TLS] ———-
220-You are user number 5 of 50 allowed.
220-Local time is now 20:55. Server port: 21.
220-IPv6 connections are also welcome on this server.
220 You will be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity.
Host type (1): Automatic detect
USER (user)
331 User (user) OK. Password required
PASS (hidden)
230-User (user) has group access to: jfiniala
230 OK. Current restricted directory is /
SYST
215 UNIX Type: L8
Host type (2): UNIX (standard)
PWD
257 “/” is your current location
TYPE A
200 TYPE is now ASCII
PASV
227 Entering Passive Mode (69,73,171,90,154,112)
connecting data channel to 69.73.171.90:154,112(39536)
data channel connected to 69.73.171.90:154,112(39536)
LIST
150 Accepted data connection
transferred 1995 bytes in 0.141 seconds, 110.833 Kbps ( 13.854 KBps), transfer succeeded.
226-Options: -a -l
226 29 matches total

SITE time
211 2005-01-29 21:02:16
PASV
It appears that the connection is dead. Attempting reconnect…
Connecting to 69.73.171.90:21
Connected to 69.73.171.90:21 in 0.000000 seconds, Waiting for Server Response
Error reading response from server.
Connection closed by remote host.
Host type (1): Automatic detect
Reconnect failed. The connection is dead. Sorry.
This connection is dead. Attempting to reconnect….
Connecting to 69.73.171.90:21
Connected to 69.73.171.90:21 in 0.000000 seconds, Waiting for Server Response
220———- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [TLS] ———-
220-You are user number 3 of 50 allowed.
220-Local time is now 21:02. Server port: 21.
220-IPv6 connections are also welcome on this server.
220 You will be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity.
Host type (1): Automatic detect
USER (user)
331 User (user) OK. Password required
PASS (hidden)
Error reading response from server.
Reconnect failed. The connection is dead. Sorry.
This connection is dead. Attempting to reconnect….
Connecting to 69.73.171.90:21
Connected to 69.73.171.90:21 in 0.000000 seconds, Waiting for Server Response

220———- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [TLS] ———-
220-You are user number 4 of 50 allowed.
220-Local time is now 21:04. Server port: 21.
220-IPv6 connections are also welcome on this server.
220 You will be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity.
Host type (1): Automatic detect
USER (user)
331 User (user) OK. Password required
PASS (hidden)
Error reading response from server.
Reconnect failed. The connection is dead. Sorry.
This is insane. Each of those failures is a timeout after 60 seconds. For one. Single. File. Gah!

The IPP has been responsive, if not especially helpful. Sending me on wild goose chases asking for traceroutes isn’t particularly welcome, as it’s quite clear there’s nothing wrong with the connection. The problem is with the server response.

Particularly frustrating is that I have sites there on a different machine all of which are working just fine, TYVM. It’s only the two sites on this machine that aren’t working.

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