Hi, it seems SARA has the same error although on a smaller scale with another site. I'll ask them to look into their gridftp servers. cheers alessandra On 24/09/2011 15:20, Christopher J. Walker wrote: > On 24/09/11 14:14, Alessandra Forti wrote: >> SARA has carried out an upgrade yesterday. Let me look at it. >> > > Thanks. > > I'm pretty sure I've noticed this sort of error before, so it may well > be nothing to do with the upgrade. > > Our external link is saturated - which is probably part of the problem > - but unfortunately, a failure such as this uses up bandwidth without > actually transferring data. > > Chris > >> cheers >> alessandra >> >> On 24/09/2011 13:30, Christopher J. Walker wrote: >>> A number of transfers from SARA to QMUL have failed with the following >>> error: >>> >>> globus_ftp_client: the server responded with an error426 FTP proxy did >>> not shut down >>> >>> eg >>> https://lcgfts01.gridpp.rl.ac.uk:8443/glite-data-transfer-fts/cgi-bin/fts-mon-log.pl?t=GRPATLST1S-UKILT2QMULfailed/GRPATLST1S-UKILT2QMUL__2011-09-24-1201_aUZwV5.log >>> >>> >>> >>> Ok, so which server is the problem, ours or theirs? >>> >>> Googling the error finds >>> >>> https://lemon02.cr.cnaf.infn.it/ftsmonitor/ftsjob.php?jobid=920a8698-df17-11e0-a1ba-93be92d73d1f >>> >>> >>> >>> which is another transfer from SARA but to an Italian site - which >>> might suggest that it's a SARA problem, or perhaps a dCache/StoRM >>> problem. >>> >>> Chris >> >