PING time out

2008-01-16 Thread Greg Shirey
Fellow listers, We have some batch jobs that run early in the morning, create a file, then FTP it to a server in our network. We had one of the jobs fail to FTP, getting the message: EZA2589E Connection to server interrupted or timed out. Initial connection At that time, when we tried to

Re: PING time out

2008-01-16 Thread Mark Jacobs
Greg Shirey wrote: Fellow listers, We have some batch jobs that run early in the morning, create a file, then FTP it to a server in our network. We had one of the jobs fail to FTP, getting the message: EZA2589E Connection to server interrupted or timed out. Initial connection At that

Re: PING time out

2008-01-16 Thread Greg Shirey
Thanks Mark and Jack for the responses. Since then, the network guys admitted to changing something on the server. They blamed the intermittent problem with communicating from the mainframe on the router that connects the mainframe to the network -- something about how it has to hold a lot of

Re: PING time out

2008-01-16 Thread Bruno Sugliani
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:45:34 -0600, Greg Shirey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, my question to this esteemed group is what is there in the mainframe IP environment could intermittently cause PING to fail? (And only to a particular server - I set up a REXX to PING 5 servers, go to sleep for 30