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From: Andreas Liebschner <fizban@slackware.com>
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Subject: Re: ftp.scarlet.be no longer mirroring?
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:46:20 +0100
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Mark Post wrote:

> It's probably due to the same problem that I've been seeing with always
> getting:
> opening tcp connection to ftp.slackware.com port 873
> @ERROR: max connections (25) reached - try again later
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver]
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(359)
>
>
> That's been going on for some time now. It's almost like someone is running
> a DOS attack against the server. With a max of 25 connections, that
> wouldn't be too hard.

Hi Mark, :-)

We will be pointing ftp.slackware.com to some other place (we meant to
do it some time ago, but with Pat's personal issues it just went low on
priority) as soon as possible, and in the mean time we already have
another place where Pat pushes updates to

I'm not going to write it on this newsgroup because then everyone would
start using it, and we'd be forced to login/pass restrict it for mirrors
only.

Anyway, if you or any mirror admin (just those listed on /getslack) is
having problems rsyncing from ftp.slackware.com, drop me an email at
mirrors@ or fizban@ and I'll point you out to the right direction - as
far as I know, ftp.scarlet.be should be aware of that server already,
but I might be wrong.

Also, to the users: if you notice a server "not so up to date", please
drop the server admin an email, and tell him/her to get in touch with
me. For me it's impossible to go mirror by mirror and check.. so your
help would be appreciated :-)

Andreas