Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 21:20:05 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: src/contrib/ntp/readme.y2kfixes Message-ID: <3D7589F5.3030905@owt.com> References: <200209021544.29354.kdagee@owt.com> <3D73F06E.4090403@owt.com> <20020904033633.GA15242@laptop.lambertfam.org>
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Scott Lambert wrote: > On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 04:12:46PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > >> >>Karl Agee wrote: >> >> >>>something is **broken** with the above file on the ftp mirros. I cant >>>download it via cvsup, anon ftp or http. it downloads some of it and then >>>stalls every_time. >>> >>> >>If you more the file, it looks like there are several 1000 nulls (at >>least 1 full screen) at the end. >> > > Sounds like the time we found a bit pattern that would send the telco's > atm/frame relay switch port to Mars for several minutes. I think it was > a stream of more than X space chars. We could ping across the link with > spaces as the ping payload and knock the link down anytime we wanted. > It still took us a few days to convince the telco. We were just lucky we > had three T1s on that link. > Karl and I both use the same ISP. I have a ADSL connection and I think he is using a modem. I have been using my local cvs-mirror and decided to try cvsuping from cvsup16. It worked for me. Karl could be on a different frame-relay. My ISP displays statistics and I have figured out what links I am on by starting an iso download. I did it early in the morning when everything was quiet and the traffic on the connections I use go straight up when I start the transfer and straight down when I pause the transfer. A traffic delta of 700kb/s is usually noticeable on my ISP. FWIW, od claims the nulls start at ~0011413 and stops at 0020000. Even if the count is in octal, that is a lot of nulls at the end of the file :). The size of the file is 8192 and I can only count 4875 characters in the text portion of the file. The rest are nulls. I think it is a messed up file :). Kent - Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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