When I do my daily mirror of ftp.debian.org there is sometimes a time out. The message is: ... exclude: bla bla exclude: bla bla timed out Failure at end of remote directory () because: timed out ... When my mirror script detects an error it tries again, and again, and again. This puts a high burden on the server. At another time of the day it goes fine... What is wrong??? Another topic: How can I use the remote file ls-lR in combination with mirror 2.9 ? Onno