One of three ftp.freebsd.org servers unavailable, ftp.freebsd.org unresponsive

[Christoph Sold]

Dear All,

it appears one of three ftp.freebsd.org servers has dropped off the net. Would you please check the server, or adjust the DNS services?

Thanks in advance
-Cheasy
a.k.a. Christoph Sold

Diagnosis follows.

Cheasys-iMac27:~ cs$ dig ftp.freebsd.org

; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> ftp.freebsd.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 58890
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ftp.freebsd.org.		IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ftp.freebsd.org.	48	IN	A	87.51.34.132
ftp.freebsd.org.	48	IN	A	149.20.64.73
ftp.freebsd.org.	48	IN	A	204.152.184.73

;; Query time: 34 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.4.4#53(8.8.4.4)
;; WHEN: Fri Sep  9 20:23:13 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 81

Cheasys-iMac27:~ cs$ for IP in 87.51.34.132 149.20.64.73 204.152.184.73 ; do echo $IP; ftp -v $IP ; done
87.51.34.132
Connected to 87.51.34.132.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection.
ftp> ^D

Cheasys-iMac27:~ cs$ dig -x 87.51.34.132

; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> -x 87.51.34.132
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 57094
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;132.34.51.87.in-addr.arpa.	IN	PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
132.34.51.87.in-addr.arpa. 43200 IN	PTR	ftp.beastie.tdk.net.