[lug] redhat down?

[John Hernandez]

After reading your message again, I had a thought.  Maybe you should try passive mode.  Maybe there's a dumb firewall somewhere hosing your data channel connection, thus no 'ls' output.

-John

John Hernandez wrote:
> 
> Used my Netscape browser.  Started at ftp://updates.redhat.com/ and clicked my way down.
> 
> Command line seems ok, too:
> 
> $ lftp ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2
> cd ok, cwd=/6.2
> lftp> ls
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x   5 root     235          4096 Mar 28 20:10 en
> lftp> cd en/os/i386
> cd ok, cwd=/6.2/en/os/i386
> lftp>
> 
> "D. Stimits" wrote:
> >
> > John Hernandez wrote:
> > >
> > > I was able to navigate all the way down to ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/en/os/i386/ just 20 seconds ago.
> > >
> > > My traceroute goes through att.net to attens.net.
> >
> > I'm finding that if I use a program that allows me to select directory
> > from the start, I can get there and read it. However, the directory
> > structure has changed, and RH update notices I recently received are no
> > longer accurate links. The "en/os" part is new, and using ls causes it
> > to fail in the lower directories. Very strange. Did you log in with ftp
> > manually and do combinations of "ls" and "cd" to get there? If I use ls
> > from the root of public ftp I might as well kill it and start over, it
> > won't go any further after that. There must be some sort of rearrangment
> > going on.
> >
> > >
> > > -John
> > >
> > > "D. Stimits" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I've been trying to get ftp://updates.redhat.com since yesterday, and it
> > > > is dying with various errors. At one point it was failing to set guest
> > > > permissions; now I can sometimes login, but the 6.2/i386 subdirectory is
> > > > missing (maybe they got cracked?). On occasion I can login and do
> > > > nothing, on other occasions I can't even login. Can anyone else confirm
> > > > that updates.redhat.com is missing any download abilities now?
> > > >
> > > > D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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