Why can I not get amd64/11.1-RELEASE?
James B. Byrne
byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca
Thu Jul 12 13:32:49 UTC 2018
On Wed, July 11, 2018 19:30, Polytropon wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 16:23:38 -0400, James B. Byrne via
> freebsd-questions wrote:
>> I am experiencing difficulty installing ezjail-admin. Specifically
>> when I run 'ezjail-admin install' I get this:
. . .
>> fetch:
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshot/amd64/amd64/11.1-RELEASE/base.txz:
>> File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
>>
>> So, what is going on and how do I fix this?
>
> When I test this, I get a 404.
>
> % wget
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshot/amd64/amd64/11.1-RELEASE/base.txz
> --2018-07-12 01:25:08--
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshot/amd64/amd64/11.1-RELEASE/base.txz
> => "base.txz"
> Resolving ftp.freebsd.org (ftp.freebsd.org)... 213.138.116.78,
> 2001:41c8:112:8300::15:0
> Connecting to ftp.freebsd.org (ftp.freebsd.org)|213.138.116.78|:21...
> connected.
> Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
> ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
> ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD (1)
> /pub/FreeBSD/snapshot/amd64/amd64/11.1-RELEASE ...
> No such directory "pub/FreeBSD/snapshot/amd64/amd64/11.1-RELEASE".
> ^^^^^^^^
>
> It seems that the path is misspelled. Have a close look:
> The 's' in "snapshots" is missing.
>
> However, ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/amd64/
> does not contain a 11.1-RELEASE directory entry, just those:
>
> 10.4-STABLE Directory 07/09/2018 20:07:00
> 11.2-STABLE Directory 07/09/2018 21:39:00
> 12.0-CURRENT Directory 07/10/2018 02:02:00
> ISO-IMAGES Directory 05/09/2018 19:11:00
>
>
>
>> I can connect and see the
>> files, I just cannot get them:
>>
>> ftp> dir pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/11.1-RELEASE
>
> That's an entirely different path. Please compare:
>
> pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/11.1-RELEASE
> ^^^^^^^^
>
> pub/FreeBSD/snapshot/amd64/amd64/11.1-RELEASE
> ^^^^^^^^
>
> The command
>
> % fetch
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/11.1-RELEASE/base.txz
>
> should work fine (it will download a 100 MB file).
>
>
>
The problem was due to a mis-configured pf.conf. PF was blocking ftp
traffic.
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