Thanks for getting back to me - must be something about my environment here (ftp might even be blocked currently - although I did try from two different networks). I was able to get what I needed by using "http" for now. Sorry for the traffic. Derek On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 4:54 PM Satish Balay <[email protected]> wrote:

Both ftp and http work fine for me..

balay@asterix /home/balay/petsc.x/petsc (balay/test=) $ lftp ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages cd ok, cwd=/pub/petsc/externalpackages lftp ftp.mcs.anl.gov:/pub/petsc/externalpackages> ls |head -rw-r----- 1 ftp ftp 0 Nov 18 2016 ==33186== -rw-r----- 1 ftp ftp 828346 May 2 2013 Chaco-2.2-p1.tar.gz -rw-r----- 1 ftp ftp 1981220 Sep 23 2014 Chaco-2.2-p2.tar.gz -rw-r----- 1 ftp ftp 828295 Oct 23 2009 Chaco-2.2.tar.gz -rw-r----- 1 ftp ftp 1685576 Feb 16 2015 Elemental-0.85-p1.tar.gz -rw-r----- 1 ftp ftp 112597 Mar 28 2012 Generator.tar.gz -rw-r----- 1 ftp ftp 2471411 Nov 18 2011 MUMPS_4.10.0-p1.tar.gz -rw-r----- 1 ftp ftp 2471465 Feb 26 2012 MUMPS_4.10.0-p2.tar.gz -rw-r----- 1 ftp ftp 2440565 Mar 15 2012 MUMPS_4.10.0-p3.tar.gz -rw-r----- 1 ftp ftp 2439922 Aug 17 2011 MUMPS_4.10.0.tar.gz lftp ftp.mcs.anl.gov:/pub/petsc/externalpackages> exit balay@asterix /home/balay/petsc.x/petsc (balay/test=) $ lftp http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages cd: received redirection to ` http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/' cd ok, cwd=/pub/petsc/externalpackages lftp ftp.mcs.anl.gov:/pub/petsc/externalpackages> ls |head drwxr-xr-x -- .. -rw-r--r-- 0 2016-11-18 11:03 ==33186== -rw-r--r-- 809K 2013-05-01 22:00 Chaco-2.2-p1.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1.9M 2014-09-23 13:52 Chaco-2.2-p2.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 809K 2009-10-22 19:53 Chaco-2.2.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1.6M 2015-02-16 14:21 Elemental-0.85-p1.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 110K 2012-03-27 19:22 Generator.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 2.4M 2011-11-18 13:59 MUMPS_4.10.0-p1.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 2.4M 2012-02-25 21:05 MUMPS_4.10.0-p2.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 2.3M 2012-03-14 22:57 MUMPS_4.10.0-p3.tar.gz ls: Broken pipe lftp ftp.mcs.anl.gov:/pub/petsc/externalpackages> exit

Satish

On Thu, 5 Apr 2018, Derek Gaston wrote:

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Is ftp access down again? The download links on the PETSc website appear to just stall...

Derek

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 9:52 AM Satish Balay <[email protected]> wrote:

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ftp.mcs.anl.gov is now back online [serving ftp:// - http:// is not yet enabled]

petsc configure builds with --download-package option should now work.

For direct tarball download - switching the URL from http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov to ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov notation is the temporary workaround. For eg:

change: http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/release-snapshots/petsc-3.8.4.tar.gz to: ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/release-snapshots/petsc-3.8.4.tar.gz

Satish

On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, Satish Balay wrote:

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We've been informed by the site admin that ftp.mcs.anl.gov is taken down due to 'cyber incident' - there is no ETA on when it will be back.

We've been using it the primary host for distributing petsc tarballs and hosting some externalpackage tarballs - so some of the petsc

buils

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with '--download-package' option are failing.

Obtaining petsc [and some most externalpackages] via git should work.

I will update when ftp.mcs.anl.gov is brought back up.

Satish