I was setting up several 8.2.8 servers that do periodic FTP uploads and downloads to a central server. I went back to one a couple of days later and noticed a large number of failures on the FTP jobs. Manually troubleshooting with the FTP Connection Explorer, I discovered that I could properly connect only about 1 time in 10. Sometimes it just seemed to time out, and a couple of times I found the error logged: "Invalid address (error code is 96260)". On the FTP server, usually, there was no sign that the client (the VisualCron server) was attempting to open the data port.

I uninstalled one of the servers and reinstalled it with 8.2.7, and it appears to be working fine. I'm about to go downgrade the rest of them.

The problem is a new way DNS is used. You need to use the IP or the FQDN in this version.

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