From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31402 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Pinard?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Is the snapshots down? Date: 12 Jun 2000 13:07:17 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167815 13758 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:36:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:36:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5F0CD051F for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 13:12:07 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAC03870; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 12:08:36 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 12 Jun 2000 12:07:52 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA27272 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 12:07:41 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from ariel.progiciels-bpi.ca (ariel.grics.qc.ca [199.84.132.74]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4DDCD051E for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 13:08:09 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by ariel.progiciels-bpi.ca (Postfix, from userid 3) id DE90EC8F3; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 13:09:56 -0700 (EDT) Original-Received: from titan.progiciels-bpi.ca.progiciels-bpi.ca (unknown [199.84.132.86]) by icule.progiciels-bpi.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C2053090; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 13:07:22 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Jim Davidson X-Face: "b_m|CE6#'Q8fliQrwHl9K,]PA_o'*S~Dva{~b1n*)K*A(BIwQW.:LY?t4~xhYka_.LV?Qq `}X|71X0ea&H]9Dsk!`kxBXlG;q$mLfv_vtaHK_rHFKu]4'<*LWCyUe@ZcI6"*wB5M@[m Felix Hagemann writes: > > Jim Davidson writes: > > > For the past week I have been unable to get the nightly snapshots. > > I tried to reach ftp.gnus.org with Netscape, couldn`t get through. The I > > tried plain ftp on the command line: worked like a charme! > That did the trick. Thanks! > Dunno why it doesn't work with Netscape, but at least there's a workaround. It might be related to the fact that Netscape uses "passive FTP" mode. Some firewalls allow passive FTP mode through, others allow FTP through except for passive mode. (Someone told me that, I did not study the matter). -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard