--On Wednesday, November 25, 2020 10:03 -0800 Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I will also note that part of the reason ftp.ietf.org sees so > little traffic is likelty due to the highly aggressive session > timeout on the server's FTP command channel, making it pretty > much unuseable for interactive sessions. If you increased that > timeout from 20 seconds to something reasonable, say five > minutes, people might start using the service interactively. I had forgotten that particular annoyance, but that was another reason I stopped using FTP interactively (to retrieve several I-Ds in sequence) rather than the editor macros, which still work fine for single I-D retrievals if am can sure I know what the name, including version number, is. I don't know what Lyndon is doing but, while five minutes seems a tad long, 20 seconds is too short to retrieve something, think for a bit, and then issue another command... and probably too short for clients in many environments to perform "mget" by sending NLST, getting back a list of names, builting a mini-script, and then start sending RETR commands. john
