"Paul V" <paul.vernon@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>I just thought I'd post this as it is a strange problem and I managed to
> solve it but I was wondering if anyone else could test and/or recreate
> this
> problem.
>
> Essentially, up until we installed SP1 on our servers, we had a multi-line
> welcome message including a simple legal notice etc. After installing SP1,
> no-one could login to our FTP service and all the clients hung after
> receiving the first line of the FTP welcome message.
>
> After two or three restarts of the service, I thought that I'd just change
> the message to see if it really was anything to do with the problem so I
> copied the original into notepad and replaced it with the word Welcome.
>
> Lo and behold, everything worked. I was amazed that it was the welcome
> message so I put my original multi-line message back in again to see what
> would happen and everything stopped working again.
>
> My next thing was to look at the message and see if there was anything
> special about it.... Nothing really.... it just read.
>
> Welcome to ***********
> Any unauthorized access will be prosecuted under English law.
>
>
> As a stab in the dark, I changed the message to ....
>
> Welcome to ***********. Any unauthorized access will be prosecuted under
> English law.
>
> .... thereby removing the carriage return and now, after re-testing
> several
> times the FTP service logins work fine.
>
>
>

> Mmm.... unbelievable :)
> My ftp works fine after SP1, though I don't have any welcome msg :).

"Paul V" <paul.vernon@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>> Mmm.... unbelievable :)
>> My ftp works fine after SP1, though I don't have any welcome msg :).
>
> Based totally on empiracle evidence :) It was hanging, now it's not... The
> only difference, the multi-line welcome message....

> Was the FTP server hanging, or the FTP client?

"Paul V" <paul.vernon@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>> Was the FTP server hanging, or the FTP client?
>
> I tried this with a few FTP clients (Bullet Proof, SmartFTP, LeechFTP) and
> they all hung at the same point. I even tried good old DOS ftp and that
> got
> stuck at the same place...
>
> At the time, it appeared to be the server hanging on each connection as
> the
> clients could all connect but they all stopped at the same point after the
> first line of the message.....
>
> I haven't seen the problem since but I haven't gone back to a multi-line
> welcome message seeing as this is a production server, I don't intend on
> experimenting either :).
>
> Paul
>
>