ftp.freebsd.org broken

[Yasuhiro KIMURA]

From: Paul Macdonald via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Subject: ftp.freebsd.org broken
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 11:48:44 +0000

> this service appears to having issues...assuming someone here knows
> who to tell.

From my home server base.txz is downloaded successfully.


yasu at eastasia[2313]% fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/11.3-RELEASE/base.txz
base.txz                                               112 MB  220 kBps 08m42s
yasu at eastasia[2314]% dig ftp.freebsd.org

; <<>> DiG 9.14.8 <<>> ftp.freebsd.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 742
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
; COOKIE: 0fdce0b48aad836d955994b65dea47e7967abf994bc3b270 (good)
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ftp.freebsd.org.               IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ftp.freebsd.org.        2683    IN      CNAME   ftp.geo.freebsd.org.
ftp.geo.freebsd.org.    77      IN      A       192.50.199.248

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: 金 12月 06 21:21:59 JST 2019
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 121

yasu at eastasia[2315]%


But if I try to connect to 213.138.116.78 then it fails.


yasu at eastasia[2315]% pftp 213.138.116.78
Connected to 213.138.116.78.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection.
ftp> ^D
yasu at eastasia[2316]% dig -x 213.138.116.78

; <<>> DiG 9.14.8 <<>> -x 213.138.116.78
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 13106
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
; COOKIE: 131e3b3ed251acbae7e053ac5dea4a2d8a1f5dd29c35ad1e (good)
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;78.116.138.213.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
78.116.138.213.in-addr.arpa. 85889 IN   PTR     ftp0.bme.freebsd.org.

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: 金 12月 06 21:31:41 JST 2019
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 118

yasu at eastasia[2317]% 

It seems ftp0.bme.freebsd.org, one of mirror servers of
ftp.freebsd.org (European region mirror?) has problem.

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Yasuhiro KIMURA