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-x 1 ftp ftp 22 May 22 2003 Apache -> > mirror/www.apache.org/ > lrwxr-xr-x 1 ftp ftp 30 May 28 2003 FreeBSD -> > mirror/ftp.freebsd.org/FreeBSD > drwxrwxr-x 2 ftp ftp 512 May 18 2003 applications > lrwxr-xr-x 1 ftp ftp 40 May 18 2003 debian -> > mirror/ftp.debian.org/ftp.us.debian.org/ > lrwxr-xr-x 1 ftp ftp 27 Aug 01 2003 gnu -> > mirror/ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ > lrwxr-xr-x 1 ftp ftp 16 May 18 2003 iesg -> > mirror/iesg.org/ > lrwxr-xr-x 1 ftp ftp 16 May 18 2003 ietf -> > mirror/ietf.org/ > drwxrwxr-x 3 ftp ftp 512 May 18 2003 internet > lrwxr-xr-x 1 ftp ftp 28 May 18 2003 > internet-drafts > -> mirror/ietf-internet-drafts/ > drwxrwxr-x 4 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-x 3 ftp ftp 512 Sep 06 2004 mirrors > drwxrwxr-x 5 ftp ftp 512 May 18 2003 networking > drwxrwxr-x 2 ftp ftp 512 Sep 10 2004 packages > drwxrwxr-x 4 ftp ftp 512 Jul 15 2003 programming > drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp ftp 512 May 18 10:12 pub > lrwxr-xr-x 1 ftp ftp 23 May 18 2003 rfc -> > mirror/ftp.isi.edu/rfc/ > drwxrwxr-x 3 ftp ftp 512 May 18 2003 spool > drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp ftp 512 Sep 13 11:57 tech > lrwxr-xr-x 1 ftp ftp 27 Oct 13 06:53 ubuntu -> > linux/distributions/ubuntu/ > drwxrwxr-x 3 ftp ftp 512 May 18 2003 usenet > lrwxr-xr-x 1 ftp ftp 17 May 22 2003 x -> > mirror/ftp.x.org/ > 226 Directory send OK. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/x-pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]
