Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:43:59 -0600 From: charon@freethought.org To: current@freebsd.org Subject: connectivity problems with current.freebsd.org Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000124233054.00b81e00@nsit-popmail.uchicago.edu>
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[I know this perhaps isn't the proper list, but -questions and hostmaster@freebsd.org haven't replied this post, and the -current list tends to be a bit more on the ball. Anyway, the problem is about getting a -CURRENT snapshot :) ] For the past several days (at least since 20000118), I've been trying to connect to current.freebsd.org (209.180.6.226) to download the latest -current snapshot. I'm consistently getting the transmission interrupted with the message "! Receive error: Blocking call cancelled". (I'm using WS_FTP LE 5.06 for Windows NT.) This often happens after just an "ls" on the way to the snapshots directory, but occasionally happens after 30 or so of the 240640-byte blocks have been transferred. Notably, the transmission never seems to break in the process of transferring a file, just in between files. I believe that this is a problem with the server itself, as I am able to connect consistently with no errors to other FTP servers. By chance, playing around with the fact that current.freebsd.org is an alias for usw2.freebsd.org, I found that usw3.freebsd.org (209.180.6.227) mirrors snapshots as well. Perhaps something should be added to the /snapshots readme.txt on ftp.freebsd.org about the fact that current.freebsd.org has mirrors. That said, I've gotten the same error from usw3 as from usw2. Like I said, I've been using this same program/configuration for quite a while with other FTP servers, including ftp.freebsd.org. -David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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