NOAA FTP connection being rejected

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Not sure if this is the right forum, but two days ago, my WD/WDLIVE stopped updating the forcast and current conditions. Checking the FTP logs, I am getting an error that the connection was rejected by the server. Ive checked my firewall (port 21 is open), and I’ve made no changes to the system, which has been operating just fine for MONTHS!
If I try hitting : ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/zone/ga/gaz032.txt from a browser, I get “Page cannot be displayed”.

Are they having issues with their site? What else can I check to see what’s happening?
(btw, my site is: www.larryscohen.com/weather)

Thanks in advance for your suggestions/answers!

(Log entry is below)

Larry

FTPUPD.EXE finished at 8:50:19 AM 10/31/2015
Time taken = 0.23 minutes
Total bytes uploaded = 0 K
Total bytes uploaded for the day = 0.00 Mb
Total bytes uploaded for the month = 0.00 Mb
Error Failed to connect: [10061] Connection refused with FTP transfer
Error occured at:9:00:14 AM 10/31/2015
Error Failed to connect: [10061] Connection refused with FTP transfer
Error occured at:9:00:21 AM 10/31/2015
Error Failed to connect: [10061] Connection refused with FTP transfer
Error occured at:9:00:27 AM 10/31/2015
Error Failed to connect: [10061] Connection refused with FTP transfer
Error occured at:9:00:34 AM 10/31/2015
list of files uploaded*

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The ftp link that you posted is working fine and your WDL is updating fine when I checked it.

Cheers

:smiley:

MikeyM

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Hello, Mikey and thanks for your reply…

  1. My WDL is not updating…the forecast you are seeing on the site is from an old file and/or internal forecast from the VP2.
  2. Yes, the NOAA site is up, but further troubleshooting shows me that I cannot hit it from a browser on my web server ONLY. I hit it fine from other computers in my house.
    So it must be something on my webserver machine only, but I cant figure out what. I’ve rebooted my router, and FTP port 21 is open on it. I’ve rebooted the web server, and still no go.

My logs continue to say FTP connection refused. The browser says “Page cant be displayed” when trying to hit tgftp.nws.noaa.gov

Anyone have any other ideas?

Thanks!

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I think that’s causing some confusion, WDL live data is updating, but you are saying the forecast is not.

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Correct Niko. My wording error. WDL is updating fine…it’s just the meter/forecasts. For some reason my webser will not connect to ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov. The logs say connection refused. The browser says connection refused now as well. All other computers in my house/on my network connect to it just fine. I don’t get it. I cant ping it from the webserver either…no response

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Are all the PC’s on the same IP?

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They all go through my router…my outside IP is from cocast76.97.220.144…so I guess the answer would be yes. Internally, each machine has its own 192.168.1.x address
Do you think NWS might be blocking my Comcast address?

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No, not if the other PC’s are OK.

I see the tgftp.nws.noaa.gov server doesn’t respond to ping, but when you try ping do you at least get an IP address for it?

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I do get an IP address when I ping tgftp, but the ping times out

Yes. all my other PCs on the network can hit the noaa site fine. I don’t get it.

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That’s OK, it ignores all pings, but at least you are getting a route to it which eliminates some possibilities.

Yes. all my other PCs on the network can hit the noaa site fine. I don't get it.

I don’t either, has to be something on the weather pc itself. I hate to sound like Dell tech support, but have you re-booted it?

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Try FTP from a command window, or an FTP client and post the error message.

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command prompt gives me no return. just goes back to a blank line with ftp>

no error messages…no connection

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\webuser>ftp tgftp.nws.noaa.gov
ftp>

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What OS is running on your web server machine? Would you happen to have an ftp program like Filezilla on your machine to see if it can connect to the NWS machine?

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Looks like all outbound ftp is blocked on that PC. But one last time try

ftp test.talia.net

(Moved thread 'cause it’s a local, not a WD, issue)

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Thanks for continued assistance with this…

  1. OS is windows 7
  2. cmd line connect to ftp test.talia.net gives me a login prompt from that ftp server
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Just installed filezilla on the server, and attempting to connect to NWS, I get this:

Status: Resolving address of tgftp.nws.noaa.gov
Status: Connecting to 205.156.51.233:21…
Status: Connection attempt failed with “ECONNREFUSED - Connection refused by server”.
Error: Could not connect to server
Status: Waiting to retry…
Status: Resolving address of tgftp.nws.noaa.gov
Status: Connecting to 205.156.51.233:21…
Status: Connection attempt failed with “ECONNREFUSED - Connection refused by server”.
Error: Could not connect to server

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Hmmm, I didn’t expect that :lol:

Can you try that same thing on one of the other PC’s on the network?

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Ok…so using filezilla I can connect from my web server to other ftp sites…JUST NOT NOAA. It keeps rejecting my connection from that machine ONLY.

Now that I’ve narrowed it down to that…what could it be???

WOW…

Larry

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If you can’t connect with filezilla from the other PC’s, then I guess nws has blocked your IP range.

If you can connect with filezilla from the other PC’s, then there’s something funky with the wx server, probably related to the IIS install. Unfortunately I don’t think we have much forum experience with IIS because most home hosters will run an apache based server, like the xampp package.

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Eek. Yes, it has to be with the webserver. I CAN connect to NWS with Filezilla on my other machines in the house. I just cant connect to it with filezilla ON the web server. So i dont think NWS has blocked me,.

Not sure why anything would have changed on the webserver in the past two days.And, definately not sure where else to troubleshoot.

Thanks, Niko. Appreciate you helping me narrow this to the web server.

Larry