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Re: accessing ftp.cvshome.org
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Mike Castle |
Subject: |
Re: accessing ftp.cvshome.org |
Date: |
Sat, 1 Sep 2001 17:07:27 -0700 |
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On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 06:01:24PM -0400, Larry Jones wrote:
> Mike Castle writes:
> >
> > Has anyone else noticed problems accessing ftp.cvshome.org?
> >
> > >From work, it fails a "dir" command from NT or Linux. Neither IE nor Lynx
> > work either.
>
> What, exactly, do you mean by "fails"? Do you get an error message? If
> so, what is it? If not, what happens?
It hangs.
address@hidden:51pm]~(502) ftp ftp.cvshome.org
Connected to ftp.cvshome.org.
220 Features: a p .
Name (ftp.cvshome.org:mcastle):
230 Hi. No need to log in; I'm an anonymous ftp server.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> dir
200 Okay.
150 Making transfer connection...
^C
receive aborted
waiting for remote to finish abort
425 Sorry, I couldn't make a connection: connection refused.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
> In my experience, publicfile refuses to talk on the standard FTP data
> port -- attempting to use it will cause the connection to hang. You
> either have to enable sending port commands or use passive mode.
Ahhh. That works.
address@hidden:05pm]~(509) ftp ftp.cvshome.org
Connected to ftp.cvshome.org.
220 Features: a p .
Name (ftp.cvshome.org:mcastle):
230 Hi. No need to log in; I'm an anonymous ftp server.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> passive
Passive mode on.
ftp> dir
227 =64,208,42,83,7,31
150 Waiting for transfer connection...
d------r-x 1 root root 4096 Sep 2 00:05 pub
226 Success.
ftp>
> > I can ftp from home, however, all of the directory listings are bogus
> > (everything has the time stamp of the time the command was executed rather
> > than the correct time on the file).
>
> My guess is that that's an intentional feature of publicfile, either for
> "security" or for performance.
Feh. Makes life damned annoying.
How many places mirror ftp.cvshome.org? This mis-feature just puts a lot
more load on the server as it makes it look like they are out of date.
mrc
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