It's a virtual center for collecting and organizing all kinds of freely distributable information around the Internet and beoynd. We have now one of the largest collections of freely distributable material in the internet. Although Anonymous FTP is still the most used of our services we have also many other services like WWW, GOPHER, ARCHIE, MAILSERVER, ALEX etc. It's nickname is Hamster...
These services are provided by the Finnish Academic and Research Network FUNET, which primarily is located at the Center for Scientific Computing, CSC, in Otaniemi campus in the town of Espoo in the Greater Helsinki area, Finland. Financing and high level administration is provided by the Ministry of Education. For organizing the information FUNET relies on a large number of volunteer administrators mostly from FUNET member organizations.
NOTE: If you have troubles with multiple intermediate reply lines from FTP server, try prefixing your entry for `Password:' prompt with `-'. If your REAL password in THIS system starts with `-', enter TWO `-' characters.