Thanks all for the advice and experiences revealed. Now we know it's not just a Win95 problem. Hope the solution is found.
Chan. ----- Original Message ----- From: "chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 2:12 AM 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.
