Re: .87 & ftp: corruption of gzipped files

Ulrich Windl (Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de)
Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:29:13 +0100


On 13 Apr 96 at 2:35, Herbert Rosmanith wrote:

> > is it possible that, if we assume that ftp-masquerading is corrupt,
> > packets are passed through this routines allthough they should not
> > because of absence of masquerading rules ?
> >
> hm, it's definitely not the ftp-masquerading code. I just transferred
> 4,5MB via masquerading + isdn, no data corruption. maybe it's the aha2940?
> who knows ...
> but I noticed that, after ftp transferred all data, the client would
> not return to the prompt anymore, and Ctrl+C would do nothing. The only
> way to stop is Ctrl+Z + kill -9 %1. I don't know it that's a 1.3.87 phenomen
> at all.

I've reported that around '80. But I think a "plain" ``kill %%''
would have done the job, too. I didn't recheck it with current
kernels.

Ulrich

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