Dell DTK / FTP Server

[Eberhard Moenkeberg]

Hi,

On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Mark Watts wrote:
> On Monday 06 October 2008 13:00:48 Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Mark Watts wrote:
> > > On Sunday 05 October 2008 00:18:27 Jonas Genannt wrote:

> > > > I have some problems to get the Dell DTK from the FTP Server:
> > > >
> > > > http://ftp.us.dell.com/sysman/dtk_2.5_80_Linux.iso
> > > >
> > > > If I try to download the file, I get the following message:
> > > >
> > > > 404 - File or directory not found.
> > > > The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name
> > > > changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
> > > >
> > > > Is this an problem on the Dell side, or on my connection?
> > >
> > > I get a 404 also when clicking that link.
> >
> > Have a look at the directory.
> > The FTP daemon is presenting a non-standard directory listing format
> > sometimes (some proprietary M$ format, out of their strategy "to
> > halloween the unix world").
> 
> I doubt its an FTP service problem, since the URL uses the HTTP:// protocol...

I see that with the FTP daemon since years, and last week I saw it the 
first time with the http daemon at ftp.dell.com.

At this moment http://ftp.us.dell.com/sysman/ looks like this:

ftp.us.dell.com - /sysman/

[To Parent Directory]

 8/25/2000  4:28 PM      2347520 14A00MN.exe
  8/3/2001  9:06 AM      7463424 14A00VAS.exe
 3/28/2001  3:49 PM      7527936 14a02vas.exe
 9/30/2008 11:54 AM     49153580 194179.tar.gz
...
 7/20/2001  7:09 PM      3633768 Wst52A00.EXE
 7/20/2001  6:56 PM      1324648 Zv222a01.exe
  8/3/2001  9:17 AM     12708456 Zv230w01.exe
 7/20/2001  8:02 PM     12824680 Zv231w03.exe


Viele Grüße
Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)

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Eberhard Mönkeberg
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