Re: A problem with NetBSD's mirror in Finland

[hans dinsen-hansen <hansdinsenhansen%gmail.com@localhost>]

Robert Elz!
Thanks for your answer

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Robert Elz <kre%munnari.oz.au@localhost> 
wrote:
>    Date:        Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:03:52 +0100
>    From:        hans dinsen-hansen <hansdinsenhansen%gmail.com@localhost>
>    Message-ID: 
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>
>  | Somehow it seems difficult to maintain the correct alias
>  | "ftp.fi.NetBSD.org" for "ftp.funet.fi" even if both addresses work.
>  | I can use "ftp" or "ping".  Both bring me to the same site but the two
>  | "ftp"s end in different directories..
>
> Do you have a .netrc entry for ftp.fi.NetBSD.org ?  You showed the
> one you have for ftp.funet.fi but not the other.
>
> You might know that ftp.fi.NetBSD.org == ftp.funet.fi but ftp certainly
> doesn't know that, it isn't going to use the entry for ftp.funet.fi
> when you connect to ftp.fi.NetBSD.org.
>
> kre
Yes, they end in different directories,  and the path given by "make
fetch-list" is
in principle correct without netrc. . But the script does not find
ftp.fi.NetBSD.org

So it is still a mystery for me.

Hans