Wasn't working for me a few days ago and still isn't (today is 
03/29/01).  I FTP'd the arch/sparc64 stuff I needed from one of the mirrors.


At 01:11 PM 3/29/2001 -0500, Jon Lindgren wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, root wrote:
>
> > I have been trying to download a snapshot
> > from ftp.netbsd.org for two days now, but
> > the server is broken.  It will not allow you
> > to "ls" a directory, I get an error after a few
> > minuets, Can't built data connection: Operation
> > timed out.
> > When I try to download a file, its starts but
> > soon after I get the same error message.
> > Can someone please fix this.
>
>"Works for me."
>
>This is usually the result of filtering or firewalling that is not
>allowing the proper ports through for FTP.  You can try using a browser to
>browse the ftp server (browsers use a slightly different method of FTP) if
>you have one handy.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>- Jon
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