ftp3.ca.freebsd.org

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 11:00:23AM -0500, Jeremy Faulkner wrote:
> ftp3.ca.freebsd.org does not have any FreeBSD bits to download.

Half true.  :-) There's definitely a problem with one of the two
servers returned for the A record:

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ftp3.ca.freebsd.org.           IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ftp3.ca.freebsd.org.    86292   IN      CNAME   mirror.arcticnetwork.ca.
mirror.arcticnetwork.ca. 3492   IN      A       206.75.218.53
mirror.arcticnetwork.ca. 3492   IN      A       206.75.218.52

The problematic server is 206.75.218.53, as one can see here:

$ ftp ftp://206.75.218.53/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.0/
Connected to 206.75.218.53.
220 Welcome to the Arctic Network Mirror Servers
331 Please specify the password.
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
200 Switching to Binary mode.
250 Directory successfully changed.
550 Failed to change directory.
221 Goodbye.

206.75.218.52 appears to be behaving fine:

$ ftp ftp://206.75.218.52/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.0/
Connected to 206.75.218.52.
220 Welcome to the Arctic Network Mirror Servers
331 Please specify the password.
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
200 Switching to Binary mode.
250 Directory successfully changed.
250-If you're looking for one of the FreeBSD releases, please look in the
250-releases/${ARCH}/${RELNAME} directory, where ARCH = "alpha", "amd64",
250-"i386", "ia64", "pc98", or "sparc64" and RELNAME = the release
250-you're interested in, e.g. "6.1-RELEASE" or "5.5-RELEASE".
250-
250 Directory successfully changed.
250 Directory successfully changed.
250 Directory successfully changed.
250 Directory successfully changed.
250 Directory successfully changed.
ftp>

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                    jdc at parodius.com |
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