On 10/25/13 2:34 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: > On 25/10/13 16:03, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: >>> Subject: fink mirrors no longer reachable >>> From: costa...@wanadoo.fr >>> >>> Whoever is receiving this message: It would be nice if you showed a >>> sign of life on the fink-core mailing list. And even better, of >>> course, if you could fix the dns records so that the fink mirrors >>> network starts to work again. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Martin >> >> The finkmirrors.net domain had expired on Oct 14, but was renewed on Oct 18 >> >> And from what I can tell, the finkmirrors.net server is available and >> reachable (just fetched a random tarball from distfiles.master). > > Yes, I know, and I am grateful to dmacks for his action. I sent my > message via the address given in the whois record on Oct 17, when the > mirrors were all down. I still think it is a pity that no one feels > responsible for the mirror network and for the finkproject.org site, and > that the guys who have or had the information just silently faded away > without organizing their succession. >
The finkproject.org machine became a giant pain, to be candid. The person who helped us set it up at xs4all apparently moved on from there, and we were on the minimum possible level of support, i.e. we had to notice that something was wrong and call them rather than having it be monitored. If someone is in the Amsterdam area, maybe they can go pick the machine up, take it home, and see why it got to be so unreliable of late--it's actually still up, and ping-able, but most of the useful services are unresponsive. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ fink-core mailing list fink-core@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.core Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-core
