> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 12:12:55AM -0400, Robert L. Cochran wrote: >> redhat.newaol.com is booting me off no matter how many retries. I'm >> using ncftp. I guess that server finally hit it's limit of users? > > booting you off or rejecting your connection? If it's booting you off > when you try to do a directory, set passive off and try again. > > redhat.newaol.com is not actually one server - it's at least two with a > round-robin dns entry. FWIW, I just tried twice in a row and got a > connection to each of the servers. > > -- > Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
Actually ... no. If you just keep retyping your ls commands it works after a few tries. No re-login required. Passive works - I just downloaded disk3 from aol using passive (and got close to my full bandwidth 50K/sec - even though I'm in Aus) -- -Cheers -Andrew MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding!
