From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 22 17:36:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA03990 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:36:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (root@jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA03934 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:36:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul2.u.washington.edu (root@saul2.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.21]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id RAA28342; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:36:37 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id RAA08139; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:36:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:26:14 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: Eric Johnson cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Your less than adequate FTP site In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Eric Johnson wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > I have been trying now for three days to download the >FreeBSD OS from your FTP site. Your server resets me every 25 minutes. >Whats the deal?????? > > Very disappointed with your service, Perhaps you could try a mirror site. You also might try doing "traceroute ftp.freebsd.org" to see if there is a crappy hop on the net somewhere and work around it. FWIW, it is a vast internet. A problem could occur in anyone of a million nodes on the net, (including your own). Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ | 206-633-5994 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message