[Info-vax] : Welcome to lockdown - HP limiting access to patches

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In article <ff13k7-kid.ln1 at Ubuntu.mike-r.com>, Mike Rechtman <mike at rechtman.com> writes:
>On 20/08/10 21:15, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article<i4mfg9$dvr$1 at lnx107.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>, m.kraemer at gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) writes:
>>> In article<00AA23F4.8F8AC301 at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>>>> In article<i4m479$ins$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
>>>> <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>  writes:
>>>>> On 2010-08-18 18:09, Art Wiens wrote:
>>>>>> Anyone else see this at the ITRC main page? :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Important note: As of September 18 (or shortly thereafter),
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess we are still in "shortly thereafter" since
>>>>> ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/
>>>>> still seems to work just fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe best to fetch whatever is the currently latest
>>>>> kits, just to be safe... :-)
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have suggestions for "wget" switches to get all of this?
>>>
>>> a simple wget -r works.
>>
>> No here.  I finally go through all of Alpha V6.2 but I'm hung here:
>>
>>
>> --14:04:21--  ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/alpha/V7.2/VMS72_ACRTL-V0100.PCSI-DCX_AXPEXE
>>             =>  `ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/alpha/V7.2/VMS72_ACRTL-V0100.PCSI-DCX_AXPEXE'
>> ==>  CWD (1) /openvms_patches/alpha/V7.2 ... done.
>> ==>  PASV ... done.    ==>  RETR VMS72_ACRTL-V0100.PCSI-DCX_AXPEXE ...
>> Error in server response, closing control connection.
>> Retrying.
>>
>> --14:04:23--  ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/alpha/V7.2/VMS72_ACRTL-V0100.PCSI-DCX_AXPEXE
>>    (try: 2) =>  `ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/alpha/V7.2/VMS72_ACRTL-V0100.PCSI-DCX_AXPEXE'
>> Connecting to ftp.itrc.hp.com|15.217.32.52|:21... connected.
>> Logging in as anonymous ...
>>
>Sometimes PASSIVE mode helps.

--retry-connrefused did it.

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