VSFTPD connections in CLOSE_WAIT state and timeouts

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • We have a VSFTPD upload server that's seeing lots of CLOSE_WAIT processes for specific IPs. We're trying to find any changes to the server, or options in the VSFTPD config, or anything like that that could be causing this issue.
  • Some customers are seeing FTP timeouts after 5 minutes when running the FTP STOR command to transfer files through the customer's FTP client to our VSFTPD upload VM. We are seeing CLOSE_WAIT processes accumulate from IPs associated with these same customers.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Vsftpd
  • WinSCP

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