ftp anoymous login on ftp-master.freebsd.org

[Ken Smith]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 06:53:57AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 10:56:31AM +0300, Omer Faruk Sen wrote:
> > Hi all, 
> > 
> > I can login to ftp-master.freebsd.org before on my server listed as offical 
> > mirror. I can not login to the server as anonymous ftp user right now. Is 
> > the anonymous ftp login disabled forever? 
> 
> AFAIK, ftp-master does not have anonymous ftp enabled, because it is
> not a public mirror.

There is a limit of 10 FTP connections and due to around 8 seeming to
have been "stuck" it wasn't allowing any more connections.

I killed off the 8 that seemed to be stuck so it's accepting the anonymous
connections again.

Not all of the sites can/do support cvsup/rsync so FTP access is
still enabled.  Control is handled by an access file so only official
mirror sites can connect.  Since access is controlled that way there
isn't really a need for anything more than the "anonymous" login for
the transfers.

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