> On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 07:04:45PM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > I have tried with over 100s of ftp servers around the world. > > The character is a different value. > > Er. If both lftp and wget are producing the same problem, on many > servers, nothing seems to suggest it's lftp's or wget's fault. > > >This is because the connection between my satellite link, and my ISP > >gets severed, therefore causing FTP to resume. Regular connection > >breaks are normal on a satellite connection, they may only last 1ms or > >less, however, they cause the FTP to resume, thus causing corruption. > > This would be an OS bug. Temporary disconnections should not cause TCP > connections to fail. TCP is designed to withstand connection interruptions. > (Back when I was on a static IP over a modem PPP connection, I was actually > able to maintain connetions through a hangup and reconnect.) This is a > fundamental feature of TCP. Win2K (at least) has a bug which closes all TCP > connections the instant a physical link is lost, but I've never seen this in > a Unix. > > That aside, corruption still shouldn't happen, but I don't know what would > cause it. I'd suggest it's something in your system or connection, since > it happens with multiple programs and servers.
I should add that I've worked one on a satellite connection, and sometime random weirdies like that happened. But the problem was so unreproductable that nobody could fix it. Maybe it's linked...?
