Re: ftp server issues

[Kip Macy <kip@lyris.com>]

On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Jeffrey A Law wrote:

>   In message <Pine.SOL.4.05.9907291227060.22455-100000@luna>you write:
>   > >   > ncftp ...egcs/releases/gcc-2.95 > ls -l
>   > >   > drwxrwsr-x   2 220      65516         1024 Jul 29  1998 .
>   > >   > drwxrwsr-x   6 220      65516         1024 Jul 28 06:39 ..
>   > >   > -rw-rw-r--   1 220      65516      5734825 Jul 29  1998
>   > >   > gcc-1.1.2-2.95.diff.bz2
>   > > No, the dates are fine.  the problem in on your side.  Let me guess,
>   > > ncftp on a linux bux?
>   > > 
>   > > jeff
>   > Does ncftp in general handle dates incorrectly on linux?
> There's been one other person that has reported problems of this nature
> (bogus dates).  He was using ncftp on a linux box and we were able to 
> absolutely
> rule out the date provided by the egcs ftp server.  Unfortunately they didn't
> have another non-linux box to do any cross testing with.
> 
> Actually I do see that you're using ncftp (I missed that earlier).  I would
> recommend you try a couple things.
> 
>   * Try ncftp from a non-linux machine and see what results you get.
> 
>   * Try a normal ftp client from the same linux machine your originally used.
> 

I tried a normal ftp client and it did not give bogus dates. However, when
I used ncftp to go to go.cygnus.com I got correct dates. Thus it would
appear that it is some sort of interaction between ncftp and the
egcs.cygnus.com machine. Very weird.
			-Kip

> Those two tests ought to help bound whether or not the problem is in ncftp or
> something else on your linux box.
> jeff
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