Re: IIS FTP not responding

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From: Alun Jones [MSFT] (alunj_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:57:31 -0800

Ping does not test FTP connectivity. Ping sends ICMP packets, and receives
ICMP packets in return. It tests ICMP connectivity. It's more useful as a
test of physical connectivity, in that if ping succeeds, there must be
physical connectivity. The same is not true in reverse - if ping fails,
there may, or may not, be physical connectivity.

Drop ping, and start using an FTP client to test. First, test from the
machine running the FTP server, to see if the FTP server is up and running.
Then, from machines on the same subnet, and so on, expanding the range that
you connect from, until you hit the point where connections stop. At that
point, you have segmented the problem from multiple machines and routers
into a small section of your network and computing hardware.

Alun.
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"Help" <Help@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:4FD78CA8-B9B0-4B84-B17F-F1D0064397D7@microsoft.com...
> The IIS server is up and running, it is just that particular FTP site. 
> There
> are multiple FTP sites up and running on IIS.
>
> "Kristofer Gafvert" wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> If you cannot ping the server, and you are not blocking ping, then it
>> sounds like a network problem. I think that you need to explain your
>> network setup to the networking newsgroup so they can help you get your
>> server accessible.
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/community/newsgroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.server.networking
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>> Kristofer Gafvert
>> www.gafvert.info - My articles and help
>> www.ilopia.com
>>
>>
>> Help wrote:
>>
>> >  Thank you ahead of time for your help.
>> >
>> >  I have just set up and FTP site and have gone through all the
>> precedures.
>> > All the properties seem to be correct and I have made the change to our
>> > firewall which allows access.  I am restarted the server. But I am not
>> > getting any response (tested via ping). How do I "turn it on"? Thank 
>> > you
>> very
>> > much, this is very important to me.
>>

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