Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 01:32:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu> To: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD misc chating list) Cc: freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Sad state of afairs for US ftp mirrors Message-ID: <199610130832.BAA29432@relay.nuxi.com>
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Somebody please tell me I'm missing something here.
At Ollivier's suggestion, I wanted to get
FreeBSD-current/src/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/contrib/*
No problem I think -- just ftp it from wcarchive. But it was refusing
incoming connections (421 Service not available, remote server has closed
connection) (seems to be doing this a lot lately). So I figure I'll just
get it from a mirror site. Using ncftp
ftpX.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/gnu/usr.bin/cvs, where
X={1,2,3,4,5,6} (the USA mirrors) this is what I found:
ftp2 (phoenix) -- doesn't allow get foo.tar.gz AND has all empty
directories
ftp3 (neosoft) -- has all empty directories
ftp4 (kryten.atinc.com) -- no such file
ftp5 (uncc) -- no such file
ftp6 (vt.edu) -- perfect!!! (of course my alma-matta would be good :-))
Now I really appreciate Jordan's recent message about getting the mirror
sites path standard with wcarchive. I'd love to use a mirror site to
reduce the load on wcarchive. But, not if it is going to be this hard.
-- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)
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