On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:15:20 -0600 "Thomas T. Veldhouse"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Yes, you got hosed by something that appears to have been done to the
| Gentoo rsync server and you are not alone.  They are remaining hush
| about what has really happened.  They state on their webpage that the
| master rsync servers are down, but they have not stated the problem
| that has developed (like you have posted about), nor have the
| indicated a more systemic problem like the non-function and now long
| lag of the email lists.

>From what I've heard, which may be inaccurate... eagle (rsync1.us, the
master rsync server) fell over due to hardware problems. Unfortunately,
due to really unlucky timing it seems all the second level mirrors
managed to sync an empty tree. To avoid hosing local rsync trees, the
DNS records were updated to point to localhost.

Things *should* be back to normal now.

Disclaimer: I wasn't really paying attention when this was discussed
because I run my own local rsync mirror anyway...

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh
Mail:    ciaranm at gentoo.org
Web:     http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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