Re: traceroute

John Storms (jstorms@livingston.com)
Fri, 01 Nov 1996 10:38:35 -0800

At 09:40 AM 11/1/96 -0800, you wrote:
>>In regards to the problem you were having with tracerouting through a
>>PortMaster. We've been able to pinpoint the problem in the code that causes
>>this to happen. Its a very easy bug to fix and will be fixed in the next
>>release.
>
>
>Hi John,
>
>It is very encouraging to see that Livingston listens and cares about
>problems of their customers. Thank you.
>Is it possible that my problem with ftp and e-mail which is described below
>is somewhat connected with the above mentioned bug in the OS?

No, absolutely not .

>It takes usually over a minute to establish a ftp connection to a host on
>the Internet from my network. Once I pass the authentication stage, "put"
>and "get" commands perform as fast as my connection permits. Very similar
>situation happens when I am retrieving e-mail from my mailbox which is not
>on my network. The initial phase again takes approximately one minute.

Sounds like connections on TCP port 21 are OK and TCP port 20 is not. Are
you using a firewall or packet filtering?

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