Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Lothan" To: "Corinna Vinschen" Subject: RE: FTP? Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 02:13:39 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: <20010130235735.B13349@cygbert.vinschen.de> > From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com > [mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 2:58 PM > To: cygwin > Subject: Re: FTP? > > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 05:26:40PM -0500, David A. Cobb wrote: > > Several web pages, including some at , link to > > 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. Just as a quick reference, WS_FTP Pro interprets the refused connection the same as IE... it asks for a username and password. It's not a big deal, and does tend to remind us to use the mirrors. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple