[smacedo@casbah smacedo]$ lynx ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk Alert!: Unable to access document. Looking up ftp.mirror.ac.uk. Making FTP connection to ftp.mirror.ac.uk. Looking up ftp.mirror.ac.uk. Making FTP connection to ftp.mirror.ac.uk. Can't Access `ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/' Alert!: Unable to access document. lynx: Can't access startfile Nevertheless: [smacedo@casbah smacedo]$ ftp ftp.mirror.ac.uk Connected to ftp.mirror.ac.uk. 220 UK Mirror Service FTP server version 1.4 ready Name (ftp.mirror.ac.uk:smacedo): anonymous 331 Guest login ok: please send your email address as the password Password: 230- Welcome to the UK Mirror Service funded by JISC 230- More information can be found at our web site: http://www.mirror.ac.uk/ 230- Please send comments or questions to help.uk 230 Logged in for anonymous FTP Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> ls 200 Data port set 150 About to open data connection drwxr-xr-x 1 ukms ukms 1024 Apr 2 01:00 collections drwxrwxr-x 1 ukms ukms 512 Apr 2 08:10 indexes drwxr-xr-x 1 ukms ukms 1024 Apr 2 01:00 sites drwxr-xr-x 1 ukms ukms 1024 Sep 16 1999 ukms 226 Transfer complete ftp> lynx -version Lynx Version 2.8.3dev.18 (06 Jan 2000) Built on linux-gnu Feb 7 2000 15:42:47 [root@casbah /root]# rpm -q -f /usr/bin/lynx lynx-2.8.3-2
This is fixed in the current version.