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Date:      Wed, 05 Jul 2000 11:25:38 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
Cc:        Stephen Hocking <shocking@houston.rr.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What's up with ftp.freebsd.org 
Message-ID:  <200007051825.LAA17513@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Jul 2000 12:27:05 MDT." <20000705122705.A14588@panzer.kdm.org> 

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>On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 10:16:52 -0700, David Greenman wrote:
>> >It doesn't seem to be allowing anon logings - nobody released some fancy new 
>> >game, have they?
>> 
>>    I've had to reduce the user limit until a bandwidth issue is addressed. It
>> should be back to normal by the weekend.
>
>You might want to adjust the error message people get when the user limit
>has been exceeded:
>
>ncftp>open ftp.freebsd.org
>User anonymous access denied.
>Login failed.
>ncftp>quit
>
>Most ftp servers say something about too many users...this leaves people
>with the impression that the machine doesn't support anonymous ftp.

   Oops! I forgot about that when I built the server earlier in the year. This
is the first time that the limit has been reached, so noone noticed. :-)

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
Manufacturer of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com
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