Data connection already open; Transfer starting.

["Sean Porterfield" <sporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sender: "Sean Porterfield" <sporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

I'm having some problems, and I'm not sure where to start.  I've tried all
kinds of things....

We are sending files daily that used to work fine.  The FTP server we send
to started having problems about a month ago.  They eventually blamed it on
nimda since it was a convenient excuse.  They provided an alternate server
which worked fine (from one of my AS/400s but not the other.)

Anyway, they say that I'm the only customer who can't connect to the
repaired original server.  I've been trying to simplify the program (which
was originally designed to copy from a spool file to a PF to a SRC file to
the IFS then FTP from there.)  I took out the copy from PF to SRC.  Then I
took out the PF to IFS and used FTPAPI to send directly from the PF.

Still working fine on the alternate server.  If I connect to the original
server, it logs on, sends a PORT and STOR then hangs.  They tell me it has
to be in PASV mode to work.  So I see there is ftp_passiv so I turned that
on and got the error in the subject line: Data connection already open;
Transfer starting.

I also tried enabling logging, but that doesn't seem to tell me anything
more than I had since I was already checking for errors returned.  The error
"Data connection already open; Transfer starting." was returned from the
proc as -1, so I'm a bit  confused by the "Transfer starting" part since the
file doesn't transfer.

What am I missing?


     220 www6 Microsoft FTP Service (Version 4.0).
     > USER xxxxx
     331 Password required for xxxxx.
     > PASS **********
     230-Welcome to xxxxxxxxxx.COM FTP Site.
     230 User xxxxx logged in.
     > TYPE A
     200 Type set to A.
     > PASV
     227 Entering Passive Mode (216,199,2,7,14,85)
     > STOR CMSINV2710721.txt
     125 Data connection already open; Transfer starting.
     > QUIT
     226 Transfer complete.

If I log back on with the AS/400 FTP client and do "ls -l" (it automatically
sets PASV)
  -rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group               0 Oct 17 10:40
CMSINV2710721.txt

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