On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 10:39 +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:13:54AM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > I'm having trouble with automated package updating using the swedish mirror > > (ftp.eu.openbsd.org, aka ftp.su.se). It seems that the server is not > > responding correctly to the "nlist *.tgz" command in > > OpenBSD::PackageRepository. > > > > While stuff like "nlist a*.tgz" works, "nlist *.tgz" does not. Even "nlist > > [a-z]*.tgz" works. :) See below. A wild guess would be that there is some > > limitation of the number of rows returned or so. > > > > Is this a common limit that should be worked around in PackageRepository or > > is this only a problem for this specific server? The latter, I suppose? > > > > /Alexander > > Any sensible ftp server has a limit. OpenBSD ftpd has a limit of > GLOB_LIMIT (see glob(3)), which translates to a maximum of 256k of > bytes allocated for the file list. I do not know which ftpd > ftp.eu.openbsd.org is using.
We are using the heimdal 1.0.1 ftpd. I've heard another person talk about NLIST issues against my server. Is it worth switching to another ftpd just for that? (Also, we do http:// serving since recently, so that might help people wanting to list lots of ports)
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