Richard Sims wrote:
>
> >ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/
> >
> >I even tried through the websiite.
>
> Works fine for me.  Some things to check...
>
>     FTP can fail to work for several reasons:
>      - Firewall rules at your site may prevent access.
>        If you have a firewall at your site, look into Passive Mode FTP.
>      - Bad DNS.
>        Reverse lookups associated with FTP access may be failing due to 
> obsolete
>        entries in your site tables, as in still pointing to a DNS server at an
>        ISP you moved away from some time ago.


I've had problems recently (last couple weeks) getting to both
ftp.software.ibm.com and index.storsys.ibm.com via certain Web
browsers.  In particular, Netscape 7 (under AIX) and Mozilla (under
Linux) are usually timing out.  They used to work fine.

Netscape 4.8 (under the same AIX box) and MSIE continue to work without
problems.

I've always had issues with AIX's command line FTP client not being
able to see directories (only the files) in "ls" listings, but the
"ncftp" command line client works fine from the same system.

None of the problems I've had are related to firewall rules (either
network or host-based); no proxy or caching servers are involved; DNS
is fine.  And until the last couple weeks or so, the same exact clients
all worked fine.


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