On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:27:20 -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

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>>Has anyone been successful in logging in to ftp.netbsd.org recently?

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> 
> 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...

Thanks for the replies.  It would not at all surprise me if our
firewall was misconfigured.


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Matt Meola