Problems with your ftp site

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Mar 16 17:01:33 UTC 2007


On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:05:25PM +0100, Mike wrote:
> Nino Ivanov wrote:
> >Dear Sir or Madam,
> >
> >I tried reaching
> >
> >ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/
> >
> >from my Windows XP machine, using Firefox 2.0.0.2, and it requires me to
> >input a username and a password. The same happens with IE7. I would like to
> >download old ISO images. Is this a bug, or is it some new regular 
> >behaviour,
> >and in any case, is there a way to download these images?
> >
> >  
> No, there is a problem.  This shouldn't happen normally:
> 
> Name (ftp-archive.freebsd.org:porridge): anonymous
> 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
> Password:
> 530 Login incorrect.
> ftp: Login failed.

It's reached its user limit.  Retry or use a client that will do this
automatically.

Kris


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