In message <pan.2005.09.16.13.16.57.544095@vericept.com>, Matt Meola writes:
>On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 23:33:10 +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 08:27:21PM +0100, Liam J. Foy wrote:
>>> Does anyone have any recent NetBSD 3 snapshots available for
>>> download?
>> 
>> Yes: 
>> 
>> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-3/
>
>Has anyone been successful in logging in to ftp.netbsd.org recently?
>
>Here's what I get:
>
>- ftp -i iso.netbsd.org
>Trying 2001:4f8:4:7:2e0:81ff:fe21:6563...
>ftp: connect to address 2001:4f8:4:7:2e0:81ff:fe21:6563: No route to host
>Trying 204.152.190.13...
>Connected to iso.netbsd.org.
>220 ftp.NetBSD.org FTP server (NetBSD-ftpd 20040809) ready.
>Name (iso.netbsd.org:matt): anonymous
>331 Guest login ok, type your name as password.
>Password:
>230-
>421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection.
>ftp: Login failed.
>
>Is anonymous FTP not allowed...?
>

It works for me.  However, that message is often a symptom of a 
misconfigured firewall in the path.  Specify a - as the leading 
character of the ftp password to suppress the lengthy message; that 
will make some of those firewalls happy.

This is very much an FAQ...

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb