[Administrators] ftp://www.tux.org/pub/ still slow and EMPTY ["Adrian Aichner" <adrian@xemacs.org>] Re: Hello David, Joseph, Sam,

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

[Mike Sperber: Maybe you could take a look at this, or just have a clue?
The server is "220 ProFTPD 1.2.9 Server (ProFTPD on ftp.tux.org)
[gwyn.tux.org]".]

I've done a little investigating, and there are a ton of self-symlinks
in the top
directory.  There are a few more in /ftp/xemacs.  I wonder if they
have something
to do with it, but I have no hypothesis as to what they might have to
do with it.

I don't observe it with a command-line ftp client, but I do see it
with Firefox, and
wget ftp://www.tux.org/README
reports:

chibi:tmp steve$ wget ftp://www.tux.org/README
--09:39:58--  ftp://www.tux.org/README
           => `README'
Resolving www.tux.org... 207.172.156.132
Connecting to www.tux.org|207.172.156.132|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD not needed.
==> PASV ... couldn't connect to 207.172.156.132 port 55737: Connection refused
chibi:tmp steve$

in about five seconds.  curl takes about 30 seconds before it chokes
and the result
is similar:

chibi:tmp steve$ curl ftp://www.tux.org/README
curl: (7) couldn't connect to host
chibi:tmp steve$

I don't have a hypothesis about what might be happening, except that
maybe these clients assume your server will be configured to support
PASV.  This assumption might be implicit (ie, they're behind a firewall).
Oops, I didn't check passive with the command line client ...  yup, just
$ ftp www.tux.org
Name: anonymous
Password: stephen at xemacs.org
ftp> passive
Passive mode on.
ftp> ls
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||57194|)
ftp: connect: Operation timed out
ftp> ls
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||57588|)
ftp: connect: Operation timed out
ftp> pwd
421 No Transfer Timeout (120 seconds): closing control connection.
ftp>

The server is pretty clearly broken.  How, I'm not sure; it doesn't
just disconnect, as you can see, it gets an inactivity timeout because
it's not sending any data.

On 10/21/07, Adrian Aichner <adrian at xemacs.org> wrote
>
> Hi Guys, I've tried to report this a couple of times.
>
> Could someone please take a look at this?
>
> We still have some XEmacs mirror sites updating via the ftp mirror
> package and they are out of date, possibly due to this problem?
>
> E.g.
> http://ftp.br.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/binaries/win32/InnoSetup/
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Adrian
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Adrian Aichner" <adrian at xemacs.org>
> To: David C Niemi <niemi at tuxers.net>
> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:18:43 +0200
> Subject: Re: Hello David, Joseph, Sam,
> David C Niemi <niemi at tuxers.net> writes:
>
> > This is the first I'd heard about it.  I don't do any regular work on
> > Tux.Org these days, but step in once in a while if there's an
> > emergency. I imagine the Tux.Org directors should be informed of the
> > problem and probably should be involved in any major decisions.
>
> Hello David, thanks for getting back to me.
>
> Is administrators at tux.org still in use?
>
> That's where I wrote about the problem with
> ftp://www.tux.org/pub/
> prominently featured in
> http://www.tux.org/download.html.
>
> ftp://www.tux.org/pub/ presents an empty index:
>
> Index of ftp://www.tux.org/pub/
> Up to higher level directory
>
> after some minutes when accessed from my ISPs in Germany or Austria.
>
> Best regards!
>
> Adrian
>
> >
> > DCN
> >
> > On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Adrian Aichner wrote:
> >> I have been trying to get hold of you over the past couple of weeks.
> >>
> >> You know, we have had problems with XEmacs mailing lists and FTP
> >> mirroring.
> >>
> >> I would like know your position regarding the future of the XEmacs
> >> project at tux.org.
> >>
> >> Please drop me a few lines.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance!
> >>
> >> Adrian
> >
> > +-----------------------------------------------------------+
> > | David C Niemi  (Reston, VA, USA)  niemi at tuxers dot net |
> > +-----------------------------------------------------------+
> >
> >
>
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