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From: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu>
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Subject: Sad state of afairs for US ftp mirrors
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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)