[Suns-at-Home] GNU packages for sun

Volker Borchert bt@teknon.de
Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:29:03 +0100


In message <3A3D08A4.FE328095@garrett.no-ip.com> Garry Garrett writes:

|> Ken Nagorski wrote:

|> > over net "Go to this great site sunfreeware.com" Which is great except I
|> > can NEVER get into the ftp server to download anyhting. I have been trying
|> > for days and it times out every time.

|> You have to go to http://www.sunfreeware.com/ - it's HTML not FTP.

ftp.sunfreeware.com _does_ exist, although at this very moment the user
count is at its limit. The timeouts Ken sees may be caused by firewalls
disallowing the creation of the FTP data connection, cf. RFC 959.

	vb