[EMBOSS] accessing emboss ftp site

[Chris Dagdigian]

Might be an issue with the Juniper Netscreen firewall/IDS security 
appliance that sits upstream of the EMBOSS FTP server. I'll take a look 
at the security logs and alerts.

-Chris


Koen van der Drift wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For a while now I am unable to access the emboss ftp site using the OS X
> client Transmit. Loggin in works fine, but it chokes on the LIST
> command. I have no problems accessing it from the command line. I have
> added the output from Transmit below. I don't know if this is a Transmit
> or emboss issue, but just wanted to let you know.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Koen.
>
>
> Transmit 3.6.9 Session Transcript
> LibNcFTP 3.2.1 (August 13, 2007) compiled for UNIX
> Uname: Darwin|exile.local|9.8.0|Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15
> 16:57:01 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_PPC|Power Macintosh
> 220: (vsFTPd 2.0.1)
> Connected to emboss.open-bio.org.
> Cmd: USER anonymous
> 331: Please specify the password.
> Cmd: PASS NcFTP@
> 230: Login successful.
> Cmd: TYPE A
> 200: Switching to ASCII mode.
> Logged in to emboss.open-bio.org as anonymous.
> Cmd: SYST
> 215: UNIX Type: L8
> Cmd: PWD
> 257: "/"
> Cmd: CWD /pub/EMBOSS/fixes
> 250: Directory successfully changed.
> Cmd: PWD
> 257: "/pub/EMBOSS/fixes"
> Cmd: PASV
> 227: Entering Passive Mode (208,94,50,58,83,232)
> Cmd: LIST -a
> Could not read reply from control connection -- timed out. (SReadline 1)
> 220: (vsFTPd 2.0.1)
> Connected to emboss.open-bio.org.
> Cmd: USER anonymous
> 331: Please specify the password.
> Cmd: PASS NcFTP@
> 230: Login successful.
> Logged in to emboss.open-bio.org as anonymous.
> Cmd: SYST
> 215: UNIX Type: L8
> Cmd: PWD
> 257: "/"
> Cmd: CWD /pub/EMBOSS/fixes
> 250: Directory successfully changed.
> Cmd: PWD
> 257: "/pub/EMBOSS/fixes"
> Cmd: PASV
> 227: Entering Passive Mode (208,94,50,58,222,100)
> Cmd: LIST -a
> Could not read reply from control connection -- timed out. (SReadline 1)
>
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