Luckily I've found out that some sites now offer GPS Rinex files via http (for probably 30 years, FTP was the main medium of choice), so I've spent about 3h porting our code to access those files that way. Can I bill Google for that? Not giving up on GAE yet, despite the continuous headache. Just don't expect to use FTP, it's now been silently declared unsupported.
Emanuele On Sunday, 15 May 2016 16:45:17 UTC+12, Emanuele Ziglioli wrote: > > Hi there, > > we use (passive) FTP and sockets have always been unreliable. Although, by > retrying in a task queue, usually they would work. > For the past few days, they've stopped working altogether. For example > > System error: errno: 113, detail:no route to host > java.net.SocketException: System error: errno: 113, detail:no route to host > at > com.google.appengine.api.socket.SocketApiHelper.translateError(SocketApiHelper.java:102) > at > com.google.appengine.api.socket.AppEngineSocketImpl.processConnectError(AppEngineSocketImpl.java:396) > at > com.google.appengine.api.socket.AppEngineSocketImpl.createSocket(AppEngineSocketImpl.java:498) > at > com.google.appengine.api.socket.AppEngineSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AppEngineSocketImpl.java:362) > at > com.google.appengine.api.socket.AppEngineSocketImpl.connect(AppEngineSocketImpl.java:352) > at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:612) > at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:540) > at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:437) > at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:220) > at > org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient._openDataConnection_(FTPClient.java:514) > > > I've tried using a different FTP server, it didn't help. > This service is critical to us. Please fix it! > > Emanuele > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/b28bcf35-ba5a-4867-b38b-e6a37b67be76%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
