December 2, 2002
Frustrating Transfer Protocol
Following a fairly common web development practice, we work with duplicated HTTP and FTP instances set up on a co-located server. One instance is our staging environment and one is the production or live environment. Today, I can’t transfer any binary files to the staging server if those files are larger than 16KB or if my machine is assigned a DHCP-leased IP address outside of a certain range. Text files are fine. Small files are fine. Certain client IP addresses are fine. And like I mentioned, the exact same configuration on the production server works like there’s no tomorrow. Using a different workstation with a lower IP address, I can transfer to my hearts content. This problem has generated the biggest pile of WTF I’ve seen in the office in a long, long time. Meanwhile, I suppose I’ll just build stuff directly in the live site and backup to the staging environment when the server feels like cooperating again. Fug. Has anyone ever run across something similar to this? I should probably mention that the servers are running IIS. Maybe that’s enough said right there.
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