Introduction: Exhaustive List of FTP Sites

Last Updated: 1995/11/30

Anonymous FTP Sites Listing

See the related Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) List for distribution information. This listing expires 30 days from the date of last modification.

These lists can be obtained by one of the following ways:

Don't forget to change to 'binary' or 'image' type before transferring the .ZIP, .Z or .gz version of this file! Garbo.uwasa.fi, ftp.coast.net and rtfm.mit.edu are mirrored on many sites around the world. Try using those mirrors if at all possible to reduce the load on the more well-known sites.

Strip this header on personal copies only. Comments are always welcome.

Administrative mail: Perry.Rovers@kub.nl

This list is maintained by Perry Rovers (Perry.Rovers@kub.nl), and used to be maintained by Tom Czarnik and Jon Granrose (thanks!).

Notes on this release:

This release features numerous updates and some additions. See http://www.iaehv.nl/users/perry/ftp-list.html if you want to search the list on the WWW or see the URL's in the FAQ.

I got the september '94 version! No need to mail it anymore. Thanks Uwe!

This is a comprehensive alphabetic listing of Internet sites accepting Anonymous FTP. To find out what Anonymous FTP is and how to use it, read the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) List, distributed separately. 

Site   : site address (no IP numbers, they change too frequently)
Country: country where site is located
GMT    : hours from GMT (+/-)
Date   : date of last modification for site
Source : last updater of entry or source of information
Alias  : any listed aliases (machinenames or 'netnames', the nicknames
         by which they are known to the people most using them)
Admin  : administrative address for comments or reporting problems
Organ  : organization operating site and location in country
Server : email server address and instructions if available
System : type of server (hardware and Operating System if known)
URL    : Universal Resource Locator, to be used with a World Wide Web browser
Comment: any general comments or restrictions
Files  : types of files, archives, or mirrors available
If, for some reason(s), you can't use the sitename (also called cname) but need the so called IP address, here's how to get it:

Easiest for most people, assuming they're not in a hurry, is to send mail to:

dns@grasp.insa-lyon.fr

With an empty Subject line and in the body of the message:

ip host.subdomain.domain

Example of request:

ip grasp.insa-lyon.fr

For more information send the single word 'help' to the same address. If you're able to use the 'nslookup' command on your system you can find out interactively. On a Unix system try 'man nslookup' for help on using nslookup. Another way is to use 'telnet ', normally that shows the IP address of the site as well.

Unless otherwise stated, all sites take 'anonymous' for the username and your e-mail address for the password. A side remark on this one: I only check for username 'anonymous', it's not called Anonymous FTP for nothing. But if you find a site that does accept 'ftp', guest' or something like that (with an e-mail address for the password) and not 'anonymous', let me know and I'll add it to the list. Most sites accept username 'ftp' as well. Another note on my checking of sites: if I had a problem connecting to a site, you will find a remark about that in the Comment: line; Problem: symptom of problem. This does not mean that that site is no longer operational, just that it wasn't reachable for me at that moment.

Dates are represented in the Day-Month-Year format.

Some of the more common abbreviations used in this list are: 

   CC: Computer Center
   CS: Computer Science
   EE: Electrical Engineering
   NIC: Network Information Center
   NOC: Network Operations Center
Times are expressed in GMT + or - several hours, e.g. +1 means GMT+1, -5 means GMT-5. I don't want to use daylight savings or something like summertime or whatever because it complicates matters. I'm going to add a sort of timescale here someday with the most used times in it: 
-10 -9 -8  -7  -6  -5  -4 -3 -2 -1  0  +1  +2 +3 +4 +5 +6 +7 +8  +9  +10 +11 +12
HST    PST MST CST EST NDT         GMT CET EET               WST JST
                                       MET                   HST
AKDT       PDT MDT CDT EDT                                   KST

H      LA  B   C   NYC              L  T   H                 H   T    M      A
a          o   h                    o  i   e                 o   o    e      u
w          u   i                    n  l   l                 n   k    l      c
a          l   c                    d  b   s                 g   y    b      k
i          d   a                    o  u   i                     o    o      l
i          e   g                    n  r   n                 K        u      a
           r   o                       g   k                 o        r      n
                                           i                 n        n      d
                                                             g        e
[This part definitely needs some more updating, also, refer to .gif on garbo.uwasa.fi with timezones /pc/doc-net/timezone.zip or something like that]

Please remember to use sites during off-peak (1800-0600 or 6pm-6am local time) hours and within your area, before jumping to international archives. If they have regional access or limited links, respect their restrictions. And remember that mirrors are here for a reason. It's often much faster to check if the file(s) you're looking for are mirrored close by and getting them there, than getting them from somewhere distant (and slow).

Most important of all:

Anonymous FTP access is a privilege and can be denied at any time. Don't ruin it for yourself and lots of others by overusing a site or not abiding by their rules.

If you notice any changes to a site, please let me know. Site admins should read my FAQ for the specific information I need. Note: this release has some sites that haven't been checked yet, or have been checked but I was unable to fill in all the information. This is not standard procedure, but a temporary thing (my backlogs were starting to grow a bit too big).

A comment on Archie: Use this service! For those that don't know what Archie is, please read my FAQ. Also, services like gopher or WWW can be much easier to use than 'bare bones' FTP. Try them.

Thanks to everybody who has made suggestions for changes, and all the people maintaining those 1000+ public archives. Help maintaining this list: check one of the 'older' site and send me a report, with the info I need plus a listing of the / and /pub directories. 

Disclaimer: This information is provided as-is. Updates are always
            welcome, but nothing in this document is guaranteed for
            anything except to occupy diskspace somewhere ;-)

Copyright (c) 1993-1995, Perry Rovers -- Text may be quoted in on-line
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reference and make sure that you add pointers to the places where people
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we can work something out.