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From: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>
To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
cc: John Garrett <garrett@bhs.jcsd1.k12.wy.us>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: HELP: service not available, closing control connection
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On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Jonathan Chen wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, John Garrett wrote:
> 
> > I was trying to set up 3, now I'm trying 2.2.8-RELEASE
> >
> > Still same damned 'service not available' message. Don't make me load
> > NT boys.
> 
> Hmm. If I connect to ftp.freebsd.org, it comes up with:
> 
>     ~,11:43am> date
>     Wed Dec 23 11:43:22 NZDT 1998
>     ~,11:43am> ftp ftp.freebsd.org
>     Connected to wcarchive.cdrom.com.
>     220 wcarchive.cdrom.com FTP server (Version DG-3.1.27 Wed Dec 2 01:29:08 PST 1998) ready.
>     331 Guest login ok, send your email address as password.
>     230-Welcome to wcarchive - home FTP site for Walnut Creek CDROM.
>     230-There are currently 3594 users out of 3600 possible.
>                             ^^^^              ^^^^
> 
> It could simply be that ftp.freebsd.org is overloaded this time of the
> year (too many people with free time on their hands?). Is it possible
> to load from a mirror site?
> --
> Jonathan Chen                           | To do is to be  -- Nietzsche
>                                         | To be is to do  -- Sartre
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> 
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