Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 19:47:42 +1000 (EST) From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) Cc: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sad state of afairs for US ftp mirrors Message-ID: <199610130947.TAA16492@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199610130832.BAA29432@relay.nuxi.com> from "David E. O'Brien" at Oct 13, 96 01:32:39 am
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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 :-))
I don't know if it is as it should be or not, but in the current source
tree on freefall, most of those directories are nearly empty too.
David
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