On Saturday 22 January 2005 11:33 am, Hans du Plooy wrote:

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What have I missed?  ftp.suse.com denies connections?

I got that too yesterday.

~ could this be a matter of "--passive-ftp" . . . as in :- wget --passive-ftp ?? best rgds ____________

* Hans du Plooy [01-22-05 07:19]:

hansdp@ncshans:~> ncftp NcFTP 3.1.8 (Jul 27, 2004) by Mike Gleason (http://www.NcFTP.com/contact/). ncftp> passive passive on ncftp> open ftp.suse.com Could not open host ftp.suse.com: invalid reply from server. Invalid reply: "We aren't accepting new connections right now or there are too many connections from your IP address. Please use a mirror: http://www.suse.de/en/support/download/ftp/int_mirrors.html. If you feel this is in error please contact ftpadmin@s

NcFTP 3.1.8 (Jul 10, 2004) by Mike Gleason (http://www.NcFTP.com/contact/). Could not open host ftp.suse.com: invalid reply from server. Invalid reply: "We aren't accepting new connections right now or there are too many connections from your IP address. Please use a mirror: http://www.suse.de/en/support/download/ftp/int_mirrors.html. If you feel this is in error please contact ftpadmin@s ncftp> passive passive on ncftp> o ftp.suse.com Connecting to 195.135.221.132... "Welcome to the SUSE ftp server: Please login as user 'ftp'" Logging in... Login successful. Have a lot of fun. Sorry, I don't do help. Logged in to ftp.suse.com. Must be a momentary high load or maintenance. AAR, it is again available. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos

* Anders Norrbring [01-22-05 09:09]:

We aren't accepting new connections right now or there are too many connections from your IP address. Please use a mirror: http://www.suse.de/en/support/download/ftp/int_mirrors.html. If you feel this is in error please contact ftpadmin@suse.com

Seems like there an IP-discrimination case coming up in the UN any day now..

Here comes that X-Files paranoia again. I got there twice and the third time was rejected. Is it just remotely possible that the message indicating "aren't accepting" may be due to load? After all, the SuSE distro's _are_ extremely popular. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos

Patrick wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] The ftp server?' on Sat, Jan 22 at 08:16:

* Anders Norrbring [01-22-05 09:09]:

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We aren't accepting new connections right now or there are too many connections from your IP address. Please use a mirror: http://www.suse.de/en/support/download/ftp/int_mirrors.html. If you feel this is in error please contact ftpadmin@suse.com

Seems like there an IP-discrimination case coming up in the UN any day now..

Here comes that X-Files paranoia again.

I got there twice and the third time was rejected. Is it just remotely possible that the message indicating "aren't accepting" may be due to load? After all, the SuSE distro's _are_ extremely popular.

My nightly rsync mirror jobs have been remotely disconnected for the last couple of days, as well, which is generally indicitive of bandwidth problems. They're probably just experienceing higher-than-normal load, possibly due to some DDOS (either intentional or not). :) --Danny, who really likes having a local mirror