IIS ftp 5.1: 426 Connection closed; transfer aborted.

What the. . . ?

I’m trying to set up and ftp server on my machine here.

This machine reaches the internet through a router, so I configured the router to talk to dyndns. the router forwards ports of my choosing.

I set up IIS, change the port to 2001 for extra security, and try to connect to it via a simple, reliable ftp program like WS_FTP 6.0 ¹ (before they tried to make it all weird and heavy and snazzy. No snazz for me, thank you.)

I get the following response from the IIS server:

WINSOCK.DLL: WinSock 2.0
Ipswitch WS_FTP LE 6.0 2003.11.04, Copyright © 1992-2003 Ipswitch, Inc.
- -
connecting to 25.11.22.33:574
Connected to 25.11.22.33 port 574
220 Microsoft FTP Service
USER bobobobo
331 Password required for bobobobo.
PASS (hidden)
230 User bobobobo logged in.
CWD /Ipswitch/Product_Downloads
550 /Ipswitch/Product_Downloads: The system cannot find the path specified.
PWD
257 "/" is current directory.
SYST
215 Windows_NT
Host type (S): Microsoft NT
PASV
227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,1,103,5,113).
connecting to 192.168.1.103:1393
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connecting to 192.168.1.103:1393
Connected to 192.168.1.103 port 1393
LIST
426 Connection closed; transfer aborted.
! Retrieve of folder listing failed (4)

Connection CLOSED???? WHY??

It turns out the answer is that I’m trying to use a port other than the default port 21.

It turns out that IIS 5.1 ONLY works if you set the port to 21. Isn’t that weird?

I could surf the web all day . . .

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Hibernating Quickly

Wow! WordPress really did it this time.

They totally overhauled the UI for this site. And it, at first glance, seems fantastic.

It seems they’ve fixed a lot of the little annoyances that were in the previous version of WordPress. As usual, very Ajax-y too.

Anyway, I’m currently reading about Hibernate because I want to start using it at work.

Sunday at 6:30pm is the only time I have to do research on how to better do my 9-to-9 job –

Well, I couldn’t read at any other time. I’m still working on finishing Super Metroid for SNES.

Jeez. Do I suck, or is programming just really really involved?

Anyway, in Hibernate Quickly, Nick Heudecker says:

Persistence

Data that oulives the process that created it.

Great def, and I just had to share it with ya. Seems like this is a great book so far. Amazon reviews only give it 3 stars, but Amazon reviews aren’t always accurate.

This book and Walsh’s DirectX book really get smashed pretty unfairly.

Anyway, anyway.