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On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Random Junk wrote:

> this is just about the weirdest thing i've ever seen...
> 
> we have a huge ftp archive of quicktime movies.  some of them don't
> ftp correctly.  what happens is the transfer gets to about 95 or 96%
> and then it just hangs.  this happens in netscape's ftp, standard
> freebsd command line ftp, ncftp, windows ws_ftp.  so it must be
> something on the server.  we also have DOS zipped copies of all the
> movies, and they transfer without a hitch.

Are you attached to any Ascend products?

You might try disabling tcp_extensions in /etc/sysconfig.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major