From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 24 21:44:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 225F414CB0 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:44:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from charon@freethought.org) Received: from broad-208-049 (broad-208-049.rh.uchicago.edu [128.135.208.49]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA11626 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:44:32 -0600 (CST) From: charon@freethought.org Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000124233054.00b81e00@nsit-popmail.uchicago.edu> X-Sender: dbsypher@nsit-popmail.uchicago.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:43:59 -0600 To: current@freebsd.org Subject: connectivity problems with current.freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [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