IIS FTP service - download timeouts and restarts getting the data twice

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Published on 2009-09-29T12:09:46Z Indexed on 2010/12/29 9:55 UTC
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We have an IIS FTP site on a Windows Server 2003 x64 machine.

Application Layer Gateway service is disabled (so http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931130 does not apply). Windows Firewall service is disabled as well. Connection timeout for the FTP site (there is only one) is set to 1,200 seconds = 20 minutes.

An external client can connect to the site, list directory contents and download small files. When a client attempts to download a large file (eg, if the download continues for 3 minutes, which is still under 20 minutes, but relatively long), the server sends all data, then the connection times out, the client issues REST / RETR commands attempting to restart the download since after the last byte (which I believe should succeed and receive exactly 0 bytes), and the server behaves as if the client tried to restart after byte 0, that is, it sends the entire file all over.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

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