[tex-live] FTP requires password

Maximilian Nöthe maximilian.noethe at tu-dortmund.de
Mon Jun 5 00:08:58 CEST 2017


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Hi,

Ok, then it was probably just the additional release traffic.
I was using chrome.

Regards,
Max


On 05.06.2017 00:05, Karl Berry wrote:
>     The formerly publicly available > > Formerly, and still. > > now requires user name and password: > >
No, it doesn't. I've seen this happen when an ftp client wrongly >
interprets a connection failure as "needs a username/pw", when the >
actual error (as reported) is "limit of available anonymous connections
> reached, try again later". > > I intentionally restrict the number of
simultaneous anon connections to the > tug ftp server because spiders,
browsers and others commonly (ab)use it. > > FWIW, I haven't yet seen a
need to restrict rsync access, and the entire > ftp tree is available
through rsync too ... -k
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Astroparticle Physics
TU Dortmund
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