bin/82787: ongoing problems with fetch

[Michael Scheidell]

>Number:         82787
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       ongoing problems with fetch
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jun 29 18:30:21 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Michael Scheidell
>Release:        4.11
>Organization:
SECNAP
>Environment:
FreeBSD hackertrap 4.11-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p9 #0: Tue Jun 28 22:32:47 EDT 2005     admin at hackertrap:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HACKERTRAP_305  i386

>Description:
Fetch fails too ofter for it to be our problem.
Starting with FBSD 4.10, FETCH has been a problem.
certain sites REFUSE fetch http://url (but allow curl -O and wget) and it doesn't matter if its with passive on or off.

trying to install port zip23, fetch doesn't see to understand how to log on anonmyously.

wget works great, curl -O works great.

see transcripts: see the 'Not loged on'.
tried fetch by hand, same problem.
ftp'd to uunet, user ftp, bassword blah at blah.com, worked fine.

curl -O works fine, wget works fine.

=> zip23.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/src/.
fetch: ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/src/zip23.tar.gz: Not logged in
=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/TeX/CTAN/tools/zip/info-zip/src/.
fetch: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/TeX/CTAN/tools/zip/info-zip/src/zip23.tar.gz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ctan.unsw.edu.au/tex-archive/tools/zip/info-zip/src/.
fetch: ftp://ctan.unsw.edu.au/tex-archive/tools/zip/info-zip/src/zip23.tar.gz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/tools/zip/info-zip/src/.
fetch: ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/tools/zip/info-zip/src/zip23.tar.gz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/CTAN/tools/zip/info-zip/src/.
fetch: ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/CTAN/tools/zip/info-zip/src/zip23.tar.gz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
===>    Verifying install for zip in /usr/ports/archivers/zip
=> zip23.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/src/.
fetch: ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/src/zip23.tar.gz: Not logged in
=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/TeX/CTAN/tools/zip/info-zip/src/.
^Cfetch: transfer interrupted

hackertrap# wget ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/src/zip23.tar.gz
--13:34:16--  ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/src/zip23.tar.gz
           => `zip23.tar.gz'
Resolving ftp.uu.net... 192.48.96.9
Connecting to ftp.uu.net|192.48.96.9|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /pub/archiving/zip/src ... done.
==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR zip23.tar.gz ... done.
Length: 723,283 (706K) (unauthoritative)

100%[========================================================================================>] 723,283      176.19K/s    ETA 00:00

13:34:21 (166.05 KB/s) - `zip23.tar.gz' saved [723283]

>How-To-Repeat:
   use   fetch.
>Fix:
      use curl or wget
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: