From: "Jessica Yan (jeyan)" <jeyan@cisco.com> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:36:48 -0700
I am not able to download the files from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/.... It says I do not have permissions to view files.
From: <1@pervalidus.net> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 20:37:08 -0200 (BRST)
I don't know why, but I'm assuming it's because it now rejects connecting from hosts that don't resolve.
Mark Brader and I just debugged a DNS-related problem he was having in accessing the elsie FTP server. It turns out that he was connecting from a host whose PTR record pointed to a CNAME. This isn't allowed (see Internet RFC 1912 section 2.1). Once his ISP corrected its DNS entry, things started working for him. Apparently elsie's FTP server is a stickler for proper DNS entries from clients that are attempting to connect. This may be why you can't connect to elsie.nci.nih.gov.
Please let me know about any mirrors.
Here are two: http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/timezone/ ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/ ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/oldtz/ Planetmirror tends to be more up-to-date (it has tzcode2004c now); munnari has much more historical versions.