Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 14:07:38 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble Downloading FreeBSD Message-ID: <3E834BFA.3010405@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20030327185034.41775.qmail@web14907.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030327185034.41775.qmail@web14907.mail.yahoo.com>
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Ahmed XP wrote: > Hi All, Hi-- > QUESTION: > Why servers containing FeeBSD installations don't support broken > downloads? Is there any workaround to this problem? Is this something to > do with security or something like that? Which FTP server were you using, and how did you retry? ftp.freebsd.com supports the FTP "reget" command fine, as shown below. -- -Chuck ftp> get ls-lR.gz local: ls-lR.gz remote: ls-lR.gz 227 Entering Passive Mode (62,243,72,50,198,156) 150 Data connection accepted from 129.44.43.88:4859; transfer starting for ls-lR.gz (8135208 bytes). 3% |* | 308 KB 01:14 ETA^ C receive aborted waiting for remote to finish abort. 450 Socket write to client timed-out. 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection. 360938 bytes received in 3.96 seconds (89.09 KB/s) ftp> reget ls-lR.gz Not connected. ftp> open ftp.freebsd.com Connected to ftp.beastie.tdk.net. 220-ftp.FreeBSD.org NcFTPd Server (licensed copy) ready. 220-The FreeBSD mirror at TDC, in Aarhus, Denmark, Europe 220- 220-Contact: beastie@tdk.net 220- 220-Use wisely. 220- 220-#################################################################### 220- 220-Please check the below URL to see if you have a closer mirror, 220-especially during releases of new versions of FreeBSD, the load 220-on this server can be quite high, and it's likely that you will 220-get better transfer rates from your local mirror. 220- 220-<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html>; 220- 220-Specifically should all mirrors not mirroring directly from the master 220-repository choose a different host than this to mirror from, for the 220-reasons mentioned above, I should also add that all tier 1 mirrors have 220-exactly the same access to the master repository as ftp.FreeBSD.org 220- 220-#################################################################### 220 Name (ftp.freebsd.com:cswiger): ftp 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. Password: 230-You are user #245 of 450 simultaneous users allowed. 230- 230 Logged in anonymously. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> cd pub/FreeBSD 250-"/pub/FreeBSD" is new cwd. 250- 250-If you're looking for one of the FreeBSD releases, please look in the 250-releases/${ARCH}/${RELNAME} directory, where ARCH = "i386" or "alpha" 250-for Intel and DEC Alpha architecture machines and RELNAME = the release 250-you're interested in, e.g. "3.5.1-RELEASE" or "4.2-RELEASE". 250- 250 ftp> ls 227 Entering Passive Mode (62,243,72,50,198,235) 150 Data connection accepted from 129.44.43.88:4861; transfer starting. drwxr-xr-x 6 ftpuser ftpusers 512 Jan 6 20:10 CERT lrwxrwxrwx 1 ftpuser ftpusers 15 Jun 1 2001 CTM -> development/CTM lrwxrwxrwx 1 ftpuser ftpusers 17 Jun 1 2001 CVSup -> development/CVSup lrwxrwxrwx 1 ftpuser ftpusers 17 Jun 1 2001 FreeBSD-current -> branches/-current lrwxrwxrwx 1 ftpuser ftpusers 19 Jun 1 2001 FreeBSD-stable -> branches/4.0-stable lrwxr-xr-x 1 ftpuser ftpusers 25 Dec 10 03:10 ISO-IMAGES-alpha -> releases/alpha/ISO-IMAGES lrwxrwxrwx 1 ftpuser ftpusers 24 Aug 18 2001 ISO-IMAGES-i386 -> releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES lrwxr-xr-x 1 ftpuser ftpusers 24 Nov 21 03:10 ISO-IMAGES-ia64 -> releases/ia64/ISO-IMAGES lrwxr-xr-x 1 ftpuser ftpusers 24 Jan 19 06:10 ISO-IMAGES-pc98 -> releases/pc98/ISO-IMAGES lrwxr-xr-x 1 ftpuser ftpusers 27 Nov 29 15:12 ISO-IMAGES-sparc64 -> releases/sparc64/ISO-IMAGES -rw-r--r-- 1 ftpuser ftpusers 6254 Nov 5 17:11 README.TXT drwxr-xr-x 2 ftpuser ftpusers 512 Nov 7 20:10 TrustedBSD drwxr-xr-x 3 ftpuser ftpusers 512 Jan 22 00:55 branches drwxr-xr-x 8 ftpuser ftpusers 512 Jan 22 00:45 development -rw-r--r-- 1 ftpuser ftpusers 16704 Mar 27 14:26 dir.sizes lrwxrwxrwx 1 ftpuser ftpusers 15 Jun 1 2001 distfiles -> ports/distfiles drwxr-xr-x 18 ftpuser ftpusers 1536 Mar 12 15:23 doc -rw-r--r-- 1 ftpuser ftpusers 8135208 Mar 27 14:21 ls-lR.gz drwxr-xr-x 2 ftpuser ftpusers 512 Apr 3 2002 misc drwxr-xr-x 8 ftpuser ftpusers 512 Apr 6 2002 ports drwxr-xr-x 7 ftpuser ftpusers 512 Jan 22 01:24 releases drwxr-xr-x 4 ftpuser ftpusers 512 Nov 4 15:31 snapshots drwxr-xr-x 5 ftpuser ftpusers 1024 Jan 28 2002 tools drwxr-xr-x 2 ftpuser ftpusers 512 Nov 5 20:14 updates 226 Listing completed. ftp> reget ls-lR.gz local: ls-lR.gz remote: ls-lR.gz 227 Entering Passive Mode (62,243,72,50,198,247) 350 Will attempt to restart at position 360938. 150 Data connection accepted from 129.44.43.88:4862; transfer starting for ls-lR.gz (8135208 bytes). 29% |************** | 2317 KB 00:51 ETA^C
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