Re: mirror for ftp://ftp.dict.org

[G Anna <drguruolai@eth.net>]

> Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 12:38:01 +0000
> From: Richard Adams <pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl>
> Subj: Re: mirror for ftp://ftp.dict.org
> 
> On Sunday 05 May 2002 12:38, G Anna wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Do you people know a mirror for ftp://ftp.dict.org server?  I am
> > trying to access this ftp://ftp.dict.org but it seems to not work for
> > me.  Thank you for any help.
> 
> Works fine from here and from other computers i operate around the world, so 
> just why does it not work for you.???

I have got no idea as to why it doesn't work.  I have tried it using
lynx and mozilla.  lynx complains that it cannot access the document
and mozilla returns an empty page with the URL ftp://ftp.dict.org/ (it
times out?)

Since it seems to work for others, I tried it using the ftp client

$ ftp ftp.dict.org

and I was able to access the dictd software.  I am currently
downloading!

Another problem I had is with wget.  After figuring out the actual URL
using the ftp client program I tried

$ wget -c ftp://ftp.dict.org/pub/dict/dictd-1.7.1.tar.gz

And I got the following error.

(begin-wget-output)

--20:56:28--  ftp://ftp.dict.org/pub/dict/dictd-1.7.1.tar.gz
  (try: 2) => `dictd-1.7.1.tar.gz'
Connecting to ftp.dict.org:21... connected!
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD pub/dict ... done.
==> PORT ... 
Invalid PORT.
Retrying.

--20:57:12--  ftp://ftp.dict.org/pub/dict/dictd-1.7.1.tar.gz
  (try: 3) => `dictd-1.7.1.tar.gz'
Connecting to ftp.dict.org:21... connected!
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD pub/dict ... done.
==> PORT ... 
Invalid PORT.
Retrying.

(end-wget-output)

So I am finally downloading the s/w through the ftp client program
itself.

Thank you all for the response.

Cheers,
anna

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