[I know this perhaps isn't the proper list, but -questions and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] haven't replied this post, and the -current list
tends to be a bit more on the ball. Anyway, the problem is about getting a
-CURRENT snapshot :) ]
For the past several days (at least since 20000118), I've been trying to
connect to current.freebsd.org (209.180.6.226) to download the latest
-current snapshot. I'm consistently getting the transmission interrupted
with the message "! Receive error: Blocking call cancelled". (I'm using
WS_FTP LE 5.06 for Windows NT.) This often happens after just an "ls" on
the way to the snapshots directory, but occasionally happens after 30 or so
of the 240640-byte blocks have been transferred. Notably, the transmission
never seems to break in the process of transferring a file, just in between
files.
I believe that this is a problem with the server itself, as I am able to
connect consistently with no errors to other FTP servers.
By chance, playing around with the fact that current.freebsd.org is an
alias for usw2.freebsd.org, I found that usw3.freebsd.org (209.180.6.227)
mirrors snapshots as well. Perhaps something should be added to the
/snapshots readme.txt on ftp.freebsd.org about the fact that
current.freebsd.org has mirrors. That said, I've gotten the same error
from usw3 as from usw2. Like I said, I've been using this same
program/configuration for quite a while with other FTP servers, including
ftp.freebsd.org.
-David
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