On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:46:16PM +0200, turha turha wrote: > Hey, > > There might be something I'm missing, but I was unable to get the list of > known FTP servers during the installation. > > I used the cd44.iso, and everything else went fine, except where it asks if > I want a list of FTP servers displayed to choose a FTP server close to me. > > "Display the list of known ftp servers? [no]", I answered yes, and it hangs > there, nothing happened for maybe 10-15 minutes, so I shut it down and > started installation again. This time answering no, and typing in a ftp > server manually. Everything worked just fine, so it's not my connection > that's broken. > > Later on I noticed similar (maybe same) issue, trying to use ports, some of > the FTP servers it tried to use failed (too many users, etc), but again > ftp.openbsd.org hangs. > > One thing that I did notice was that it tries to ftp > ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/... when I tried that from command line it also > hangs, if I tried with just ftp ftp.openbsd.org it asks for username and > works just fine. > > The result from command line: > $ ftp ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/ > Connected to openbsd.sunsite.ualberta.ca. > 220 openbsd.srv.ualberta.ca FTP server ready. > 331 Guest login ok, send your email address as password. > 230- Welcome to ftp.openbsd.org at the University of Alberta > > Not sure if this is just me, but it's a bit weird that I faced this same > issue when trying to freshly install OpenBSD 4.4, and it couldn't fetch the > list of mirrors, not much I could have broken at that point I think.
It may have been a temporary problem with the main ftp server, since it seems to be working fine now.
