Disconnects from server every 60 seconds when using FTP and FTPS

[petejfh]

I'm doing a recursive delete of a folder which contains ~4000 files split over ~60 subfolders and have noticed that FileZilla is being disconnected every 60 seconds. It re-establishes the connection and continues the delete, but the disconnection pattern continues. The server is hosted remotely to the client.

FileZilla version: 3.65.0 on Windows 11 Protocol: FTPS (TLS 1.3) Server Host: Linux Rocky el9 Server Host .NET version: 8

Output from the FileZilla log shows:

• 2024-01-22 19:37:57 32424 1 Error: Connection closed by server
• 2024-01-22 19:38:57 32424 1 Error: Connection closed by server
• 2024-01-22 19:39:57 32424 1 Error: Connection closed by server
• 2024-01-22 19:40:57 32424 1 Error: Connection closed by server
• 2024-01-22 19:41:57 32424 1 Error: Connection closed by server
• 2024-01-22 19:42:57 32424 1 Error: Connection closed by server
• 2024-01-22 19:43:57 32424 1 Error: Connection closed by server

Example output from the FTP server shows for one of these events:

• Jan 22 19:40:57 Stopped sending responses, from FubarDev.FtpServer.FtpConnection
• Jan 22 19:40:57 Stopped reading command, from FubarDev.FtpServer.FtpConnection
• Jan 22 19:40:57 Sending the response cancelled: 426 Connection closed; transfer aborted, from FubarDev.FtpServer.Commands.DefaultFtpCommandDispatcher
• Jan 22 19:40:57 Connection closed, from FubarDev.FtpServer.FtpConnection

Any ideas on why these disconnects are happening every 60 seconds?

I see the same behaviour with .NET 6 too.

[petejfh]

I'm also seeing the same behaviour using plain FTP (i.e. non-FTPS).

[fubar-coder]

I'll have to look into this, but I assume that some kind of idle connection timer is kicking in.