The retries is already set to 10, correct? But the docs say this is for a 'non-fatal' error. The problem is that when this error occurs, the client processes seem to be "hung" -- there is seemingly nothing happening. Is there another way to specify re-tries with the rft command line client? Something analogous to the <maxAttempts> field in RSL?
In 4.2 every error should be considered nonfatal, so retries will happen. 10 may not be a high enough value, can you look in the server logs to see if this error is tripped many times?
As you can see, one comes from 4.2.1, one from 4.2.0. Would upgrading valine to 4.2.1 help, if you think this is a GridFTP server issue? It sounded like you weren't so sure using globus-crft would help, although I will see about using it anyway.
since this appears to be a server side issue there is no reason other than dumb luck that globus-crft would help. However, globus-crft tends to be a better tool in general so i recommend using it.
