This is actually a duplicate of 14301 against RH62, but I thought I would test it out on the beta3 stuff as well. Same behavior, if a symlink is present and you do a put blah* and there is a link that has at least bla in it kaploo!. Get appears to function just fine. Cross tested with ftp-0.17-3 (beta3) and that runs w/o error under the same conditions.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 14301 ***