[TriLUG] Red Hat Linux 8.0

[Jeremy Portzer]

On 30 Sep 2002, Ed Hill wrote:

> I'd love to get a copy of RH 8.0 in order to mirror it for folks on the
> Front Range (mostly, for members the CLUE and BLUG groups--both Front
> Range LUGs).  Unfortunately, I can't get to any of the official RH
> mirrors and I'm unable to connect to the TriLUG mirror using ftp.
> 
> Included below is an ftp session with a "passive mode" error.  I
> understand that some firewalls will cause these errors.  Can you help? 
> Again, if I get a copy I will gladly use it to setup a mirror (here on
> the Mines campus) for two local LUGs.

Ed,

There's an issue with our firewall on dargo (the TriLUG ftp server) where 
passive mode FTP won't work.  You might be able to get it to work with 
"set passive off" (active mode) if your firewall supports active FTP.
We're working on fixing dargo's firewalling rules, until then you can use 
active FTP or HTTP (the latter is at http://mirrors.trilug.org/)

Note that our bandwidth is "slammed" at the Inflow cluster right now, so 
it might be a fairly slow download. :(

--Jeremy