[ILUG] [Kinda OT] Bizare behaviour from ftp

From: John Mc Donald (johnmcd at domain cs.may.ie)
Date: Thu 02 Sep 1999 - 16:39:10 IST


Hi,

I have been trying to get a local installation of the RH6.0 CD on a
machine
in our department. I have tried to do this off of a number of sites on
the net
and from a number of machines inside our network with a consistent
problem.

The problem is that every time I try to download
    howto-korean-6.0-4.noarch.rpm
the connection stalls and eventually times out(!?!). I have had similar
problems before when downloading other versions of Linux, but always
managed to get around it by going to a site that will tar and gzip the
directory
structure into one file.

Now, in actual fact I don't want howto-korean but I would like to try to
get
to the bottom of this problem. The reasons for this are
1. I want to mirror RH Linux but cant if the mirror software keeps
timing out
when it gets to this file, and,
2. Because its pissing me off!

I am no network expert but it seems to me that something is happening
internally
in our network because the problem occurs whether I try it from a Unix
or
Windows box.

Does anybody out there have any remotest idea what could be causing this

problem?

TIA,
John.

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John Mc Donald,
Dept. of Computer Science,
National University of Ireland,
Maynooth,
Co. Kildare,
Ireland.
Email : johnmcd at domain cs.may.ie
Phone : +353 -1 - 7084589
Fax : +353 -1 - 7083848
http://www.cs.may.ie/~johnmcd
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