Re: accessing ftp.cvshome.org

[Mike Castle]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 06:01:24PM -0400, Larry Jones wrote:
> Mike Castle writes:
> > 
> > Has anyone else noticed problems accessing ftp.cvshome.org?
> > 
> > >From work, it fails a "dir" command from NT or Linux.  Neither IE nor Lynx
> > work either.
> 
> What, exactly, do you mean by "fails"?  Do you get an error message?  If
> so, what is it?  If not, what happens?

It hangs.

address@hidden:51pm]~(502) ftp ftp.cvshome.org
Connected to ftp.cvshome.org.
220 Features: a p .
Name (ftp.cvshome.org:mcastle): 
230 Hi. No need to log in; I'm an anonymous ftp server.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> dir
200 Okay.
150 Making transfer connection...
^C
receive aborted
waiting for remote to finish abort
425 Sorry, I couldn't make a connection: connection refused.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection

> In my experience, publicfile refuses to talk on the standard FTP data
> port -- attempting to use it will cause the connection to hang.  You
> either have to enable sending port commands or use passive mode.

Ahhh.  That works.

address@hidden:05pm]~(509) ftp ftp.cvshome.org
Connected to ftp.cvshome.org.
220 Features: a p .
Name (ftp.cvshome.org:mcastle): 
230 Hi. No need to log in; I'm an anonymous ftp server.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> passive
Passive mode on.
ftp> dir
227 =64,208,42,83,7,31
150 Waiting for transfer connection...
d------r-x   1 root     root         4096 Sep  2 00:05 pub
226 Success.
ftp> 

> > I can ftp from home, however, all of the directory listings are bogus
> > (everything has the time stamp of the time the command was executed rather
> > than the correct time on the file).
> 
> My guess is that that's an intentional feature of publicfile, either for
> "security" or for performance.


Feh.  Makes life damned annoying.

How many places mirror ftp.cvshome.org?  This mis-feature just puts a lot
more load on the server as it makes it look like they are out of date.

mrc
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