What's wrong with rsync'ing ftp ?

[Andrei Verovski <andrei.verovski@parks.lv>]

Hi,

Thanks to all for previous feedback.

I am using the following statement to sync ftp directories:

rsync -av ftp.funet.fi:/pub/Linux/mirror/ /home/mirror/


However, it does not work with ANY ftp server. The error message is 
Connection refused. Unexpected EOF in read-timeout.

What I did wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Andrei