From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 23 19:18:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dv-db.com (dv-db.com [207.159.141.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEABD37B415 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 19:18:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mark2 (host217-35-41-152.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.35.41.152]) by dv-db.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA02444; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 03:18:28 +0100 (GMT/BST) Message-ID: <03ee01c1449f$195f2840$0200a8c0@mark2> From: "Mark Hughes" To: "Kory Hamzeh" , References: <005601c1449e$ac836ba0$14ce21c7@avatar.com> Subject: Re: What happened to ftp.freebsd.org Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 03:17:06 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I tried to do an update via ftp and it could not get to ftp.freebsd.org. > When I try to ping, this is what I get: > > # ping ftp.freebsd.org > PING ftp.beastie.tdk.net (62.243.72.50): 56 data bytes > 36 bytes from cat6k5-6.inet.tele.dk (193.163.159.231): Communication > prohibited by filter > Vr HL TOS Len ID Flg off TTL Pro cks Src Dst > 4 5 00 5400 9bff 0 0000 f0 01 1261 199.33.206.1 62.243.72.50 > > I tried this from two different networks (and ISP) with the same result. > Anyone know what is going on? I believe that pings to ftp.freebsd.org are denied by the server filtering ICMP packets - FTP should work despite the fact that you cannot ping. Also, try ftp[number].freebsd.org, or ftp[number].countrycode.freebsd.org, e.g. ftp3.freebsd.org ftp2.uk.freebsd.org HTH. Regards, Mark -- Mark Hughes - DVD & Film Content Manager, Technical Officer Digital Spy Ltd http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ Your number one source for digital media and entertainment news! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message