Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 12:42:03 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: George Elliott <george224@wwc.com> Cc: ftp-bugs@ftp.freesoftware.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP bug Message-ID: <200102032042.MAA00732@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Feb 2001 06:04:29 PST." <5.0.0.25.0.20010203050051.009daeb0@mail.wwc.com>
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><html> >Hi All, <br> ><br> >So maybe I'm missing something here.<br> ><br> >I was downloading 4.2 bin files from ><a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/" eudora="autourl">ftp.freebsd.org</a> , >when I came upon bin.ab, which turned out to be not the file that the >installation program wanted, but a directory in which none of the links >worked.<br> >(FTP directory /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.2-RELEASE/bin/bin.ab)<br> ><br> >So I gave up, and seeing that bin.ab was actually a file in version >4.1.1, I tried installing that version instead, until I came upon another >directory masquerading as a file, bin.bi. This directory had one >working link, which was pub, but it just led to an identical >directory. <h2><b>FTP directory >/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.1.1-RELEASE/bin/bin.bi/pub/ at ><a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/" eudora="autourl">ftp.freebsd.</a><a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/" eudora="autourl">org</a></b></h2>(Which >also appears to be identical to the bin.ab directory in 4.2, by the way, >and all 3 of which look like the root directory.)<br> ><br> >OK, I just tried a German mirror, and this isn't a problem there, so it's >probably a glitch in your new system (and so I'm not crazy.)<br> ><br> >While I'm at it, if anyone cares, the version info. >in ><a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.TXT" eudora="autourl">ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.</a><a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.TXT" eudora="autourl">TXT</a> >is out of date.<br> ><br> >Take care ya all,<br> >George<br> ></html> What were you using to download the above? All of the files are fine on the server, several hundred copies of FreeBSD are successfully downloaded every day from those directories, and the mirrors get their content from there...so the problem appears to me to be with whatever you are using to download the files. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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