[Tfug] Aol redhat mirror

[Chris Hilton]

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 21:44:21 -0700 (MST)
"Baljit S Sull" <baljits@U.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

> 
> Point being was .... why would AOL have a redhat mirror ? (but then
> again they are switching from Windows to Redhat ... answered my own
> question)

I'm not sure it is an "AOL" (as in officially sanctioned by AOL the
corporation) RedHat mirror.  A couple of months ago Scott (Fuller)
posted that one of his co-workers had set it up and and we (the three or
four RedHat users on the list) were free to use it.

> On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Scott Corey wrote:
> 
> > PING redhat.newaol.com (64.12.168.8): 56 data bytes

Didn't get much response from that one did ya?  It is up though.  Since
its a mirror:

[ogri@hellokitty ogri]$ telnet redhat.newaol.com 21
Trying 64.12.168.9...
Connected to redhat.newaol.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 ftp28t2.newaol.com FTP server (SunOS 5.8) ready.
quit
221 Goodbye.
Connection closed by foreign host.

Oops.  If anonymous logins are disabled, I shouldn't get such a freindly
greeting.  And hey, look my ftp client works the same way:

[ogri@hellokitty ogri]$ ncftp redhat.newaol.com
NcFTP 3.0.3 (April 15, 2001) by Mike Gleason (ncftp@ncftp.com).
Connecting to redhat.newaol.com...
ftp27t2.newaol.com FTP server (SunOS 5.8) ready.
Logging in...
Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Logged in to redhat.newaol.com.
ncftp / >

So if you (Scott Fuller) are still subscribed and read any of this, is
anonymous access disabled during certain times?

-C-