Chip: Thanks for responding so quickly.
The problem is not in fink, it's in curl or wget. I tried from three other locations. MacOS X: ******************************************************************************** % wget ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv/xv-3.10a.tar.gz --10:56:47-- ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv/xv-3.10a.tar.gz => `xv-3.10a.tar.gz' Resolving ftp.cis.upenn.edu... 158.130.67.137 Connecting to ftp.cis.upenn.edu|158.130.67.137|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/xv ... done. ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR xv-3.10a.tar.gz ... done. Length: 2,259,124 (2.2M) (unauthoritative) 100%[=======================================>] 2,259,124 2.66M/s 10:56:49 (2.65 MB/s) - Data transfer aborted. Retrying. ******************************************************************************** This was repeated multiple times until there were 7 files: ******************************************************************************** % ls xv-3.10a.tar.gz xv-3.10a.tar.gz.2 xv-3.10a.tar.gz.4 xv-3.10a.tar.gz.6 xv-3.10a.tar.gz.1 xv-3.10a.tar.gz.3 xv-3.10a.tar.gz.5 % uname -a Darwin toot 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 ******************************************************************************** I tried on an entirely different FreeBSD: ******************************************************************************** % ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv/xv-3.10a.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv/xv-3.10a.tar.gz: Command not found. shell.xecu.net 104% wget ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv/xv-3.10a.tar.gz --11:02:26-- ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv/xv-3.10a.tar.gz => `xv-3.10a.tar.gz' Resolving ftp.cis.upenn.edu... 158.130.67.137 Connecting to ftp.cis.upenn.edu|158.130.67.137|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/xv ... done. ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR xv-3.10a.tar.gz ... done. Length: 2,259,124 (2.2M) (unauthoritative) 100%[=======================================>] 2,259,124 2.69M/s 11:02:27 (2.69 MB/s) - Data transfer aborted. Retrying. ... (deleted multiple tries) % ls xv-3.10a.tar.gz xv-3.10a.tar.gz.3 xv-3.10a.tar.gz.6 xv-3.10a.tar.gz.1 xv-3.10a.tar.gz.4 xv-3.10a.tar.gz.2 xv-3.10a.tar.gz.5 % uname -a FreeBSD shell.xecu.net 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Mon Jun 4 09:51:33 UTC 2007 a...@newbox.xecu.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BACKUP i386 ******************************************************************************** I have a script that compares all files: % diffall * version = 1.25 of diffall 2015 Oct 27 2016May03_11:08:52 # file 1 xv-3.10a.tar.gz 2 xv-3.10a.tar.gz.1 3 xv-3.10a.tar.gz.2 4 xv-3.10a.tar.gz.3 5 xv-3.10a.tar.gz.4 6 xv-3.10a.tar.gz.5 7 xv-3.10a.tar.gz.6 _______ 1234567 1 \====== 2 =\===== 3 ==\==== 4 ===\=== 5 ====\== 6 =====\= 7 ======\ number of pairings equal 21 number of pairings not equal 0 In other words, they are all identical. I tried on a newer version of FreeBSD: ******************************************************************************** shell2.xecu.net 148% wget ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv/xv-3.10a.tar.gz --2016-05-03 11:26:42-- ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv/xv-3.10a.tar.gz => 'xv-3.10a.tar.gz' Resolving ftp.cis.upenn.edu (ftp.cis.upenn.edu)... 158.130.67.137 Connecting to ftp.cis.upenn.edu (ftp.cis.upenn.edu)|158.130.67.137|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD (1) /pub/xv ... done. ==> SIZE xv-3.10a.tar.gz ... 2259124 ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR xv-3.10a.tar.gz ... done. Length: 2259124 (2.2M) (unauthoritative) xv-3.10a.tar.gz 100%[=======================>] 2.15M 5.18MB/s in 0.4s 2016-05-03 11:26:43 (5.18 MB/s) - Data transfer aborted. Retrying. --2016-05-03 11:26:44-- ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv/xv-3.10a.tar.gz (try: 2) => 'xv-3.10a.tar.gz' ==> CWD not required. ==> SIZE xv-3.10a.tar.gz ... Error in server response, closing control connection. Retrying. --2016-05-03 11:26:46-- ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv/xv-3.10a.tar.gz (try: 3) => 'xv-3.10a.tar.gz' Connecting to ftp.cis.upenn.edu (ftp.cis.upenn.edu)|158.130.67.137|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD (1) /pub/xv ... done. ==> SIZE xv-3.10a.tar.gz ... 2259124 File has already been retrieved. 2016-05-03 11:26:47 (0.00 B/s) - 'xv-3.10a.tar.gz' saved [2259124] shell2.xecu.net 149% wget -V GNU Wget 1.16.3 built on freebsd10.1. ******************************************************************************** It could be a network problem getting into your site for some versions of wget. But they all get 'error in server response'. Let me try the latest curl on that new FreeBSD ******************************************************************************** % curl -o w ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv/xv-3.10a.tar.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 2206k 100 2206k 0 0 2888k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 2887k curl: (18) server did not report OK, got 500 % curl -V curl 7.47.0 (amd64-portbld-freebsd10.1) libcurl/7.47.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1s zlib/1.2.8 Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps pop3 pop3s rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp Features: AsynchDNS IPv6 Largefile GSS-API Kerberos SPNEGO NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz TLS-SRP UnixSockets ******************************************************************************** I got the file 'w' and it is the same as before. So your server "did not report OK, got 500". whatever that means. All of these systems report a sever problem. Tom Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D. Senior Investigator National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute Center for Cancer Research Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory Molecular Information Theory Group Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 schne...@mail.nih.gov https://schneider.ncifcrf.gov (current link) https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent link) ps: diffall is part of my toolkit. https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/ftp/diffall ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. 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