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ehartman 11-07-2018 07:59 AM
Slackware main ftp site not reachable
 
The site ftp.slackware.com, which is hosted by the Open Source Lab of the Oregon State University, is currently unreachable by ftp or web browsers that use passive mode. This is true too for all three servers with the ftp.osuosl.org hostname.

I've already contacted them, but for now you will have to use other mirrors or switch off passive mode in your ftp program.

mralk3 11-07-2018 09:59 AM
More and more mirrors are dropping support for FTP and switching to HTTP/HTTPS. Not all, but many are. Kernel.org dropped support for FTP recently.

bormant 11-07-2018 10:01 AM
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lougavulin 11-07-2018 11:12 AM
Well I hope and guess that most people use mirrors. So that should be fine.

And as mralk3 about ftp, I use rsync mirror.

dugan 11-07-2018 11:47 AM
They seem to be working for me in Firefox now. I'm not sure if Firefox is using Passive Mode.

BW-userx 11-07-2018 12:15 PM
wworkes here
Code:
userx@Slack-O-Lantern.org:~
$ ping ftp.slackware.com
PING ftp.slackware.com (140.211.166.134) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ftp-osl.osuosl.org (140.211.166.134): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=83.0 ms
64 bytes from ftp-osl.osuosl.org (140.211.166.134): icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=86.7 ms
64 bytes from ftp-osl.osuosl.org (140.211.166.134): icmp_seq=3 ttl=48 time=85.6 ms
64 bytes from ftp-osl.osuosl.org (140.211.166.134): icmp_seq=4 ttl=48 time=87.7 ms
64 bytes from ftp-osl.osuosl.org (140.211.166.134): icmp_seq=5 ttl=48 time=84.7 ms
64 bytes from ftp-osl.osuosl.org (140.211.166.134): icmp_seq=6 ttl=48 time=84.7 ms
64 bytes from ftp-osl.osuosl.org (140.211.166.134): icmp_seq=7 ttl=48 time=101 ms
^C
--- ftp.slackware.com ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 7 received, 0% packet loss, time 9ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 83.019/87.710/101.458/5.793 ms

chrisretusn 11-08-2018 04:07 AM
Works here too using Firefox.

ehartman 11-08-2018 09:37 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by BW-userx (Post 5923739)
workes here
Code:
userx@Slack-O-Lantern.org:~
$ ping ftp.slackware.com
ping never was the problem. It was getting info BACK from the ftp server when the session was in passive mode.

But indeed, the server(s) seem to be working again, so the "unreachable by browser" only lasted for a bit more then one day.

I'll mark this chain as [Solved]

BW-userx 11-08-2018 09:39 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by ehartman (Post 5924073)
ping never was the problem. It was getting info BACK from the ftp server when the session was in passive mode.

But indeed, the server(s) seem to be working again, so the "unreachable by browser" only lasted for a bit more then one day.

I'll mark this chain as [Solved]
yeah that is the way it usually works, so if I ever get something like that I just wait it out, then go back and check it again for anything like slackbuilds etc...


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