Shell server turn-down

[kgc]

Thanks to the good technicians (and Dane) at Sonic for keeping it available and secure for so long.

You're welcome.

[sidney]

What is the correct way of accessing what I used to see on the ~/public_html symlink in shell? That doesn't work in the ftp view.

[updated with answer to my own question in case it helps someone else]

Connecting to ftp.sonic.net in Finder on my Macbook had the problem of that not handling symlinks to absolute paths.
But using an ftp client like Filezilla works fine.

[rknop]

I just discovered that the shell server was brought offline when shell.sonic.net failed to DNS resolve; I started trying to debug my DNS settings.

I'm very sad it's gone. I guess I'm not surprised not many people were using it, and I didn't use it very often, but I'm going to have to figure out a new way of working to move stuff about in my personal web space.

[jriedy]

Um... The FTP server isn't responding to ls or dir.

How do we access our files?

(rsync preferred if feasible)

[jriedy]

Never mind. Worked today for some reason.