FTP?

Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Jan 30 14:57:00 GMT 2001


On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 05:26:40PM -0500, David A. Cobb wrote:
> Several web pages, including some at <sources.redhat.com>, link to
> < ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/something/else > but every
> attempt to get ftp access to sourceware comes back with a requirement
> for username/password.  "anonymous + me@my.email.server" gets
> a denial.  Are you still serving FTP?  What's the secret?

The fact: sources.redhat.com serves only 30 ftp connections in parallel.
The secret: Your IE interprets the refused connection wrong.
The solution: Use a mirror.

Corinna

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