Info-ZIP project / Support Requests / #7 FTP site appears to be down

#7 FTP site appears to be down

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Owner: nobody

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Priority: 5

Updated: 2011-02-16

Created: 2011-02-16

Creator: Anonymous

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I wanted to get UnZip.exe Version 6.0 for Windows, which I discovered is available only at ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/win32/unz600xn.exe, but unfortunately the FTP site appears to be down. Are you still maintaining it? If not, please post the Windows binaries on sourceforge.net. Thanks!

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Steven Schweda - 2011-02-16

> [...] the FTP site appears to be down. [...]

Works for me:

alp $ wget ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/win32/unz600xn.exe
--2011-02-16 14:40:09-- ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/win32/unz600xn.exe
=> `unz600xn.exe'
Resolving ftp.info-zip.org... 204.141.35.253
Connecting to ftp.info-zip.org|204.141.35.253|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD (1) /dsa0/infozip/pub/infozip/win32 ... done.
==> SIZE unz600xn.exe ... 414138
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR unz600xn.exe ... done.
Length: 414138 (404K) (unauthoritative)

100%[======================================>] 414,138 83.1K/s in 5.3s

2011-02-16 14:40:18 (76.7 KB/s) - `unz600xn.exe' saved [414138]

Do you have an actual symptom?

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Nobody/Anonymous - 2011-02-16

I am on Windows 7 and I get the following:

d:\temp>wget ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/win32/unz600xn.exe
--2011-02-16 13:26:05-- ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/win32/unz600xn.exe
=> `unz600xn.exe'
Resolving ftp.info-zip.org... 204.141.35.253
Connecting to ftp.info-zip.org|204.141.35.253|:21... connected.
d:\temp>wget ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/win32/unz600xn.exe
--2011-02-16 13:26:05-- ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/win32/unz600xn.exe
=> `unz600xn.exe'
Resolving ftp.info-zip.org... 204.141.35.253
Connecting to ftp.info-zip.org|204.141.35.253|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ...

It hangs after the "Logging in as anonymous ..." prompt.

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Nobody/Anonymous - 2011-02-16

Apparently, your (unspecified) version of wget has some kind of
problem when dealing with our FTP server. Or your system is behind some
hostile firewall. Or ...

Have you tried using any other FTP client program, like, say, a Web
browser or a command-line FTP client? Have you tried getting to any
other FTP server from this system?

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Nobody/Anonymous - 2011-02-17

FTP site is not down; it's just very slow.

I was eventually able to download the file from the FTP site, but the site is extremely slow, and it took me 21 minutes to download the file using GNU wget 1.11.4. Most of the 21 minutes was establishing the connection; the actual data transfer took only 4.9 seconds. Other FTP sites, such as ftp://naif.jpl.nasa.gov, are much more responsive. I also used three other methods to connect to your site, and they were equally slow, or failed to make a connection at all:
1) Firefox 3.6.13
2) Internet Explorer 8 (32 bits and 64 bits)
3) Microsoft (File) Explorer in 64-bit Windows 7 Professional

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Steven Schweda - 2011-02-17

> [...] the actual data transfer took only 4.9 seconds. [...]

Which suggests that the problem may be a (slow) reverse DNS failure
on your end, rather than any problem on our end. Our FTP server may be
trying to get the name of your system from its IP address, and if your
DNS configuration is faulty, then that could take a long time to fail.
I don't administer the FTP server, so I can't see its logs, but if you
can provide your (externally visible) IP address, then I could run a
test. If you're not sure what your address is, then you could try
fetching a small file from my server, where I can see the logs. Say:

ftp://antinode.info/info-zip/decc_ver.c

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Nobody/Anonymous - 2011-02-17

The result was the following. Download was almost instantaneous. I am on PST (GMT -0800).

d:\temp>wget ftp://antinode.info/info-zip/decc_ver.c
--2011-02-17 12:26:25-- ftp://antinode.info/info-zip/decc_ver.c
=> `decc_ver.c'
Resolving antinode.info... 209.98.249.184
Connecting to antinode.info|209.98.249.184|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD [ANONYMOUS.info-zip] ... done.
==> SIZE decc_ver.c ... done.
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR decc_ver.c ... done.
Length: 715 (unauthoritative)

100%[======================================>] 715 1.98K/s in 0.4s

2011-02-17 12:26:27 (1.98 KB/s) - `decc_ver.c' saved [715]

d:\temp>

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Steven Schweda - 2011-02-17

> [...] almost instantaneous [...]

Apparently, my FTP server doesn't care about your DNS problems, while
the Info-ZIP server does. Around here, the DNS failure seems to take
about 30 seconds. The Info-ZIP server may have a different time-out
limit, or it may try more than once.

ALP $ pipe show time ; nslookup <your.ip.address> ; show time
17-FEB-2011 15:27:36
Server: alp-l.antinode.info
Address: 10.0.0.9

*** alp-l.antinode.info can't find <your.ip.address>: Server failed
17-FEB-2011 15:28:06

You might ask your ISP if they'd like to fix that problem.

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