Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 12:00:53 -0400
From: WU-FTPD Development Group <[email protected]>
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Subject: [2.5.0 Quick Fix] Hanging FTP daemons

If the remote client is behind a firewall, the RFC931 conversation will
time out.  When this occurred, the daemon would fail to close the socket in
a timely manne.  Worse yet, if the control connection would later time out
(which it almost always does with a web browser on the remote end), the
daemon would hang forever; never timing out and closing down.

The fix for this problem is available from:

 ftp://ftp.wu-ftpd.org/pub/wu-ftpd/quickfixes/apply_to_2.5.0/rfc931.timeout.patch

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Gregory A Lundberg              WU-FTPD Development Group
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