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500 Illegal PORT command - one computer

Jun 14 '14 at 08:43

I have one XP box receiving this error. Somehow something has been misconfigured. Can someone help?

ChilkatLog:
  PutFile:
    DllDate: Aug  5 2012
    UnlockPrefix: SENSIBFTP
    Username: SENSIBLEMGR:Theatre Manager
    Architecture: Little Endian; 32-bit
    Language: ActiveX
    VerboseLogging: 0
    LocalFilename: C:\Sensible Database\Reports\Rentrak\ebo.20140613-1309- 3944.txt
    RemoteFilename: ebo.20140613-1309- 3944.txt
    ProgressMonitoring:
      enabled: yes
      heartbeatMs: 0
      sendBufferSize: 65536
    --ProgressMonitoring
    IdleTimeoutMs: 60000
    ReceiveTimeoutMs: 60000
    ConnectTimeoutSeconds: 60
    localFileSize: 189
    initialGreeting: 220 Rentrak Domestic Boxoffice FTP Server ready
    restartNext: 0
    ModeZ: 0
    BinaryMode: 1
    Active transfer mode
    Using ephemeral port range for Active data connection.
    bindSockAddr: 0200 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
    Socket bind successful.
    dataPort: 1389
    MyIPv4: 192,168,1,113,5,109
    PortReply: 500 Illegal PORT command
    Retrying with new port.
    Using ephemeral port range for Active data connection.
    bindSockAddr: 0200 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
    Socket bind successful.
    dataPort: 1391
    MyIPv4: 192,168,1,113,5,111
    PortReply: 500 Illegal PORT command
    Retrying with new port.
    Using ephemeral port range for Active data connection.
    bindSockAddr: 0200 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
    Socket bind successful.
    dataPort: 1393
    MyIPv4: 192,168,1,113,5,113
    PortReply: 500 Illegal PORT command
    Retrying with new port.
    Using ephemeral port range for Active data connection.
    bindSockAddr: 0200 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
    Socket bind successful.
    dataPort: 1395
    MyIPv4: 192,168,1,113,5,115
    PortReply: 500 Illegal PORT command
    Retrying with new port.
    Using ephemeral port range for Active data connection.
    bindSockAddr: 0200 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
    Socket bind successful.
    dataPort: 1397
    MyIPv4: 192,168,1,113,5,117
    PortReply: 500 Illegal PORT command
    Retrying with new port.
    Using ephemeral port range for Active data connection.
    bindSockAddr: 0200 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
    Socket bind successful.
    dataPort: 1399
    MyIPv4: 192,168,1,113,5,119
    PortReply: 500 Illegal PORT command
    Retrying with new port.
    Using ephemeral port range for Active data connection.
    bindSockAddr: 0200 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
    Socket bind successful.
    dataPort: 1401
    MyIPv4: 192,168,1,113,5,121
    PortReply: 500 Illegal PORT command
    Retrying with new port.
    Using ephemeral port range for Active data connection.
    bindSockAddr: 0200 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
    Socket bind successful.
    dataPort: 1403
    MyIPv4: 192,168,1,113,5,123
    PortReply: 500 Illegal PORT command
    PortReply: 500 Illegal PORT command
    SetupActiveDataSocket: Elapsed time: 13453 millisec
    Failed to setup active data socket.
    Try using passive mode instead.
    TotalTime: Elapsed time: 13453 millisec
    Failed.
  --PutFile
--ChilkatLog

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Answer

Changing to passive mode solved the issue.