Greg Shirey wrote:
Doing a PING first will let you know if you can connect at all, but it won't help guarantee the FTP will succeed. We have many jobs that connect successfully to an FTP server, begin the transfer and then fail.
In the security-conscious IT world in which we find ourselves, there's also no guarantee that the foreign host will respond to ICMP packets.
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