From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 29 02:47:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA29963 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 02:47:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.fx.ro (ns.fx.ro [193.231.208.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA29893 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 02:47:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cpl92@fx.ro) Received: from fx.ro (ppp86.fx.ro [193.231.209.86]) by ns.fx.ro (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA09971; Fri, 29 May 1998 12:45:46 +0300 Message-ID: <356E8343.60655348@fx.ro> Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 12:43:31 +0300 From: Florin Nicolescu Organization: Consorzio Progetto Lazio '92 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dg@root.com, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: follow: Re: Problem encountered References: <199805290326.UAA19377@implode.root.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Greenman wrote: > >I've got a problem with this ftp site (ftp.freebsd.org), and I don't > >know to whom I should post it. > >The problem is that when I want to download a port for any application > >(e.g. Scilab.tar), I can get only the very first 1k, then it stops. I > >thought this is because of my provider, but when I try downloading the > >corresponding distfile (tgz), it works perfectly. > >I mention that this started about one week ago, and keeps on repeating. > >If you have any suggestion, please let me know. > > Do you have any trouble getting any of the other 'ports'? This sounds like > it might be a bad link in the path between us and you. > > -DG > > David Greenman > Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project Here is more information: when I try to download a tar file for a port within Netscape or ftp client, I try to get 'dirname.tar' wher dirname is the name of the directory the port resides in. It is the server job to run tar. There is a little difference between Netscape and ftp client. Netscape reports only 1k (stalled) and keeps waiting for the rest; the ftp client receives 10240 and then give me the prompter, but the tar file contains only the Makefile. This is happening anytime I try to get a directory like a tar file. Also I must specify that this is happening on both servers (ftp.freebsd.org and ftp2.freebsd.org). For normal downloading (e.g. get 'filename') it works perfectly. Thank you for your attention, Florin Nicolescu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message