Why can't I download FC2 w/ Wget?

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 00:37, TongKe Xue wrote:
> Why does the following not work?
> 
> wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/iso/FC2-i386-disc1.iso
> 
> ?
> 

It works for me.
Maybe your firewall?  or a problem with passive mode?

> Error::
> 
> :ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com//pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/iso/FC2-i386-disc1.iso
>   (try: 4) => `FC2-i386-disc1.iso'
> Connecting to download.fedora.redhat.com[209.132.176.20]:21... connected.
> Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
> ==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
> ==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/iso ... done.
> ==> PORT ...
> Invalid PORT.
> Retrying.
> 

Invalid port implies something is blocking the expected port to complete
the data connection.
> 
> Thanks,
> --TongKe
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