[plug] big ISO, never-ending download!

[Shannon Carver]

Waix bytes is a waix torrent tracker, however you'll need an invite to
get access.  And as far as I am aware, invites certificates are only
given to paying clients now.

Regards

Shannon

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
Behalf Of Mike Holland
Sent: Monday, 31 October 2005 9:44 AM
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: [plug] big ISO, never-ending download!

I'm trying to download a DVD ISO using wget and ftp.
I upgraded wget to 1.10.2 , which is supposed to cope with big files.

	$ wget -c ftp://ftp.ii.net/pub/suse/\
	Suse/i386/10.0/iso/SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-i386-GM.iso

But it keeps downloading after it should have reached the end:

   (try: 3) => `SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-i386-GM.iso'
Connecting to ftp.ii.net|203.59.27.132|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /pub/suse/Suse/i386/10.0/iso ... done.
==> SIZE SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-i386-GM.iso ... done.
==> PASV ... done.    ==> REST 2793873408 ... done.
==> RETR SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-i386-GM.iso ... done.
Length: 3,621,957,632 (3.4G), 828,084,224 (790M) remaining

100%[+++++++++++++++++++++++===========>] 4,141,980,024 26.68K/s ETA
00:00



and still going. I stopped the download, and truncated the file to the
correct size. The ISO will mount (-o loop) and looks OK, but the md5sum 
is wrong.
    wget does not work with http, due to negative file size reported.
Suggestions?

What is recommended for downloading big files?
I would have used bittorrent, but needed to keep it WAIX-only.
Can anybody please tell me of a WAIX torrent tracker?

Mike.

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