Trouble Downloading FreeBSD

[Chuck Swiger]

Ahmed XP wrote:
> Hi All,

Hi--

> QUESTION:
> Why servers containing FeeBSD installations don't support broken
> downloads?  Is there any workaround to this problem?  Is this something to
> do with security or something like that?

Which FTP server were you using, and how did you retry?
ftp.freebsd.com supports the FTP "reget" command fine, as shown below.

-- 
-Chuck

ftp> get ls-lR.gz
local: ls-lR.gz remote: ls-lR.gz
227 Entering Passive Mode (62,243,72,50,198,156)
150 Data connection accepted from 129.44.43.88:4859; transfer starting 
for ls-lR.gz (8135208 bytes).
   3% |*                                                 |   308 KB 
01:14 ETA^
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receive aborted
waiting for remote to finish abort.
450 Socket write to client timed-out.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection.
360938 bytes received in 3.96 seconds (89.09 KB/s)
ftp> reget ls-lR.gz
Not connected.
ftp> open ftp.freebsd.com
Connected to ftp.beastie.tdk.net.
220-ftp.FreeBSD.org NcFTPd Server (licensed copy) ready.
220-The FreeBSD mirror at TDC, in Aarhus, Denmark, Europe
220-
220-Contact: beastie at tdk.net
220-
220-Use wisely.
220-
220-####################################################################
220-
220-Please check the below URL to see if you have a closer mirror,
220-especially during releases of new versions of FreeBSD, the load
220-on this server can be quite high, and it's likely that you will
220-get better transfer rates from your local mirror.
220-
220-<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html>
220-
220-Specifically should all mirrors not mirroring directly from the master
220-repository choose a different host than this to mirror from, for the
220-reasons mentioned above, I should also add that all tier 1 mirrors have
220-exactly the same access to the master repository as ftp.FreeBSD.org
220-
220-####################################################################
220
Name (ftp.freebsd.com:cswiger): ftp
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:
230-You are user #245 of 450 simultaneous users allowed.
230-
230 Logged in anonymously.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> cd pub/FreeBSD
250-"/pub/FreeBSD" is new cwd.
250-
250-If you're looking for one of the FreeBSD releases, please look in the
250-releases/${ARCH}/${RELNAME} directory, where ARCH = "i386" or "alpha"
250-for Intel and DEC Alpha architecture machines and RELNAME = the release
250-you're interested in, e.g. "3.5.1-RELEASE" or "4.2-RELEASE".
250-
250
ftp> ls
227 Entering Passive Mode (62,243,72,50,198,235)
150 Data connection accepted from 129.44.43.88:4861; transfer starting.
drwxr-xr-x   6 ftpuser  ftpusers       512 Jan  6 20:10 CERT
lrwxrwxrwx   1 ftpuser  ftpusers        15 Jun  1  2001 CTM -> 
development/CTM
lrwxrwxrwx   1 ftpuser  ftpusers        17 Jun  1  2001 CVSup -> 
development/CVSup
lrwxrwxrwx   1 ftpuser  ftpusers        17 Jun  1  2001 FreeBSD-current 
-> branches/-current
lrwxrwxrwx   1 ftpuser  ftpusers        19 Jun  1  2001 FreeBSD-stable 
-> branches/4.0-stable
lrwxr-xr-x   1 ftpuser  ftpusers        25 Dec 10 03:10 ISO-IMAGES-alpha 
-> releases/alpha/ISO-IMAGES
lrwxrwxrwx   1 ftpuser  ftpusers        24 Aug 18  2001 ISO-IMAGES-i386 
-> releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES
lrwxr-xr-x   1 ftpuser  ftpusers        24 Nov 21 03:10 ISO-IMAGES-ia64 
-> releases/ia64/ISO-IMAGES
lrwxr-xr-x   1 ftpuser  ftpusers        24 Jan 19 06:10 ISO-IMAGES-pc98 
-> releases/pc98/ISO-IMAGES
lrwxr-xr-x   1 ftpuser  ftpusers        27 Nov 29 15:12 
ISO-IMAGES-sparc64 -> releases/sparc64/ISO-IMAGES
-rw-r--r--   1 ftpuser  ftpusers      6254 Nov  5 17:11 README.TXT
drwxr-xr-x   2 ftpuser  ftpusers       512 Nov  7 20:10 TrustedBSD
drwxr-xr-x   3 ftpuser  ftpusers       512 Jan 22 00:55 branches
drwxr-xr-x   8 ftpuser  ftpusers       512 Jan 22 00:45 development
-rw-r--r--   1 ftpuser  ftpusers     16704 Mar 27 14:26 dir.sizes
lrwxrwxrwx   1 ftpuser  ftpusers        15 Jun  1  2001 distfiles -> 
ports/distfiles
drwxr-xr-x  18 ftpuser  ftpusers      1536 Mar 12 15:23 doc
-rw-r--r--   1 ftpuser  ftpusers   8135208 Mar 27 14:21 ls-lR.gz
drwxr-xr-x   2 ftpuser  ftpusers       512 Apr  3  2002 misc
drwxr-xr-x   8 ftpuser  ftpusers       512 Apr  6  2002 ports
drwxr-xr-x   7 ftpuser  ftpusers       512 Jan 22 01:24 releases
drwxr-xr-x   4 ftpuser  ftpusers       512 Nov  4 15:31 snapshots
drwxr-xr-x   5 ftpuser  ftpusers      1024 Jan 28  2002 tools
drwxr-xr-x   2 ftpuser  ftpusers       512 Nov  5 20:14 updates
226 Listing completed.
ftp> reget ls-lR.gz
local: ls-lR.gz remote: ls-lR.gz
227 Entering Passive Mode (62,243,72,50,198,247)
350 Will attempt to restart at position 360938.
150 Data connection accepted from 129.44.43.88:4862; transfer starting 
for ls-lR.gz (8135208 bytes).
  29% |**************                                    |  2317 KB 
00:51 ETA^C