From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) Description of problem: I just did a fresh install of RH 7.1 without installing a firewall. I connect to my company's network using a modem and PPP. When I try to download files using mget, ftp will download several files and then hang. The ftp will not respond to Crtl C to interrupt the file transfer. I have to do a 'kill' to get rid of it. Single file transfers with 'get' and 'put' work fine. I can download files with 'mget' on my RH 6.2 machine without problems. I use 'ftp -dvi hostname' to connect. When the ftp hangs during 'mget' it just stops responding without any error messages to indicate a problem. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.ftp -dvi hostname 2.mget *.c 3. Actual Results: ftp hangs Expected Results: ftp should download all the files matching '*.c' Additional info: I do not have a firewall set up and kerberos is not installed.
I have this identical problem every since I installed RH7.1 in June 2001. Both 'mput' and 'mget' show this behavior. I called RedHat tech. support and they told me to use a different problem which was a worthless suggestion as I have scripts set up for regular distributions that use wu-ftpd. I finally gave up and now I tar up my files and just use 'put' and 'get'.
Please verify this with a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora Core and reopen it against the new version if it still occurs. Closing as "not a bug" for now.