Well now I feel pretty stupid...
You're right of course !!!
Thanks for helping me see this. I will leave it for a while and try
later in the hope that the server is not so busy.
Thanks :-)
-Original Message-
From: Stuart Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 25 October 2005 04:02 PM
To: Marius Van Deventer - Umzimkulu
Subject: Re: OpenBSD mirrors
--On 25 October 2005 15:48 +0200, Marius Van Deventer -
Umzimkulu wrote:
Maybe I'm making a mistake somewhere (I hope so actually).
When I tried to access them I got a login. Anon access was rejected.
Too many users at the time, possibly? Sometimes ftp servers
don't give
useful error messages.
On the web site it says ftp access is free to all registered IS
clients.
Perhaps that's for non-anonymous access?
54 [~]% ftp ftp.is.co.za
Connected to ftp.is.co.za.
220 Welcome to Internet Solutions FTP service.
Name (ftp.is.co.za:sthen): anonymous
331 Please specify the password.
Password: ftp
230-###
230-#
230-# FTP.IS.CO.ZA
230-#
230-###
230-
230-This site now contains over 1.6TB of mirrors and 2TB of file
storage.
230-
230-If you have any queries, please contact the FTP Administrators.
230-
230-We are accepting requests for new mirrors, please mail us with
suggestion
230-and we will consider them.
230-
230-
230-FTP Admin
230-ftpadmin at is.co.za
230-
230 Login successful. Have fun.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp ls
500 Unknown command.
227 Entering Passive Mode (196,4,160,12,214,198)
150 Here comes the directory listing.
lrwxr-xr-x1 ftp ftp22 May 22 2003 Apache -
mirror/www.apache.org/
lrwxr-xr-x1 ftp ftp30 May 28 2003 FreeBSD -
mirror/ftp.freebsd.org/FreeBSD
drwxrwxr-x2 ftp ftp 512 May 18 2003 applications
lrwxr-xr-x1 ftp ftp40 May 18 2003 debian -
mirror/ftp.debian.org/ftp.us.debian.org/
lrwxr-xr-x1 ftp ftp27 Aug 01 2003 gnu -
mirror/ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/
lrwxr-xr-x1 ftp ftp16 May 18 2003 iesg -
mirror/iesg.org/
lrwxr-xr-x1 ftp ftp16 May 18 2003 ietf -
mirror/ietf.org/
drwxrwxr-x3 ftp ftp 512 May 18 2003 internet
lrwxr-xr-x1 ftp ftp28 May 18 2003
internet-drafts
- mirror/ietf-internet-drafts/
drwxrwxr-x4 ftp ftp 512 Sep 10 2004 linux
-rw-r--r--1 ftp ftp 33996792 Oct 24 22:38 ls-lR.bz2
-rw-r--r--1 ftp ftp 46753914 Oct 24 22:28 ls-lR.gz
drwxrwxr-x 45 ftp ftp 1024 Aug 19 13:06 mirror
drwxrwxr-x3 ftp ftp 512 Sep 06 2004 mirrors
drwxrwxr-x5 ftp ftp 512 May 18 2003 networking
drwxrwxr-x2 ftp ftp 512 Sep 10 2004 packages
drwxrwxr-x4 ftp ftp 512 Jul 15 2003 programming
drwxr-xr-x2 ftp ftp 512 May 18 10:12 pub
lrwxr-xr-x1 ftp ftp23 May 18 2003 rfc -
mirror/ftp.isi.edu/rfc/
drwxrwxr-x3 ftp ftp 512 May 18 2003 spool
drwxr-xr-x2 ftp ftp 512 Sep 13 11:57 tech
lrwxr-xr-x1 ftp ftp27 Oct 13 06:53 ubuntu -
linux/distributions/ubuntu/
drwxrwxr-x3 ftp ftp 512 May 18 2003 usenet
lrwxr-xr-x1 ftp ftp17 May 22 2003 x -
mirror/ftp.x.org/
226 Directory send OK.
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