Ya, that'd be nice if I ever made it to a prompt to enter 'anonymous', but the connection fails well before that point.
$ ping ftp.hifn.com PING ftp.hifn.com (208.10.194.169): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 208.10.194.169: icmp_seq=0 ttl=117 time=100.851 ms 64 bytes from 208.10.194.169: icmp_seq=1 ttl=117 time=100.228 ms ^C --- ftp.hifn.com ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 100.228/100.540/100.851/0.311 ms $ ftp ftp.hifn.com ftp: connect: Connection refused ftp> Nice :) On 7/5/06, J.C. Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 18:48:28 +0200, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 12:16:45PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: >> On 7/4/06, Peter Blair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >On 6/29/06, J.C. Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I just got a call this afternoon from Tom Moore to let me know they've >> >> set up an anon FTP site (no registration) with their documentation: >> >> >> >> ftp://ftp.hifn.com >> >> >> >> This should take care of any of the long standing issues OpenBSD has had >> >> with the HiFn's procedures for releasing documentation. >> >> >> >> I was told HiFn is still working on their new ftp site, so I'm not sure >> >> how complete it is at the moment but at least we know there's a start >> >> and they are willing to continue working on it. >> > >> >Has anyone tried recently to connect to ftp.hifn.com ? I haven't been >> >able to connect from multiple locations. >> >> Doesn't work here either. Curious... > >Looks like they're still working on it, as announced; it does not accept >connections. > >Give them some time; this is not entirely unexpected behaviour from a >server they just set up. > > Joachim Joachim has a good point. What error messages are you guys getting? -I'm thinking there would be a limit on the number of anon users the server will accept at any one time. Not only will all the various search engines try to index the site but also I would not be surprised if many individuals tried to make a local mirror of the site contents now that they are open. -The traffic influx might make a mess out of their IDS. jcr -- Free, Open Source CAD, CAM and EDA Tools http://www.DesignTools.org
