I've had that happen lately, not just with an FTP connection, but with internet and email connections too. I use Win ME over a cable modem connection. Microsoft has no ideas on this subject, and I can't find anyone in any discussion groups that has the same problem (until you), so I haven't found a reason or solution yet. I'll post here if I do find a solution.
BTW, do you use Norton Antivirus? I did two things at roughly the same time shortly before this started happening: I updated Windows (through www.windowsupdate.com), and updated my antivirus definitions. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of chan Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 1:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WS_FTP Forum] failure to connect to ftp site I've got WsFtpPro 6.2 installed on a Win95 OSR2 computer. I use a script file to remotely transfer files from the computer to an ftp site via the internet. This has been working quite well for some time (about a year). A few months ago a strange thing began happening. The ftp script would fail to connect to the ftp site after the computer has been operating continuously for a random period (sometimes a week or two or three).If the computer is then restarted the problem does not occur (connection to the ftp site is made properly) but again after some random period the problem is experienced. I have done some limited troubleshooting as this computer is remote. I have tried different ftp sites but same problem. Thinking it may be a DNS problem, I adjusted the script entering the IP address of the ftp site but no success. I made a little batch file to run the Windows traceroute command which returns the following: C:\WINDOWS>tracert 90.0.0.1 Tracing route to 90.0.0.1 over a maximum of 30 hops 1 Destination host unreachable. Trace complete. NB: I have used 90.0.0.1 instead of the actual IP address of the ftp server. Any suggestions as to what's wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Chan. Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list.
