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In information technology, hammering is the term used to describe repeated attempts to contact a currently unavailable FTP server , with no or hardly any interruption between the individual attempts. Hammering can seriously affect the performance of an FTP server, which is why most FTP sites explicitly point out a corresponding ban.
