From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Oct 13 02:48:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA24684 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 02:48:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au [129.78.129.109]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA24654; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 02:47:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dawes@localhost) by rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA16492; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 19:47:43 +1000 From: David Dawes Message-Id: <199610130947.TAA16492@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Subject: Re: Sad state of afairs for US ftp mirrors To: obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 19:47:42 +1000 (EST) Cc: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199610130832.BAA29432@relay.nuxi.com> from "David E. O'Brien" at Oct 13, 96 01:32:39 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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