de-mirror.org has moved its gentoo directory, so it's no longer found under ftp://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ , but instead here ftp://de-mirror.org/gentoo/ , the http version has a redirect (302). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Go to ftp://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ Actual Results: Error 550 Expected Results: Listing with disfiles and releases and so on.
fixed in the docs, thanks.