Riley,
Hi, it is true that all servers are not there all the time. I don't know
anything about your mirror site for sunsite.unc.edu but it sounds like it
has some problems.
As a rule, sunsite.unc.edu is always up. But it gets very slow at
times with many users. Usually just after a new kernel is put up. I have
hit contrib.redhat.com when it was down. I kept trying and in about 30
minutes I got on and got the software.
So I have learned not to panic if the site doesn't answer. For a
few weeks www.f6fbb.org was down. I think John-Paul had to find another
internet provider.
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi Karl.
>
> >> 3 contrib.redhat.com/libc6/ directory shows empty and /libc5 has a
> >> old version of axutils 22 in it
>
> > This is why I get frustrated with you Richard. It appears you have
> > a very poor internet server. I KNOW that contrib.redhat.com works
> > because I used it yesterday! And there I got the proper ax25-util
> > in rpm form. Try it again and what you want is the libc6/i386/
> > directory. Type ls ax* and you will see the file.
>
> That may not necessarily be true - I've had exactly the same happen
> with the SunSite UK mirror thereof, and I get a solid 400k/s ftp
> download from that via the university's T1 link.
>
> As far as I can tell, it's to do with the way mirroring is implemented
> at SunSite UK since each directory that's being mirrored appears to go
> offline for a while, then reappear automatically with the newly
> mirrored files in it...
>
> Best wishes from Riley.
>
>
Best wishes
- Karl F. Larsen, 3310 East Street, Las Cruces,NM (505) 524-3303 -
