YDL FTP down

[nathan r. hruby]

On Monday, October 28, 2002, at 10:14 AM, William J. Brinkman wrote:

> Don't forget that ftp.yellowdoglinux.com is really 
> jungle.metalab.unc.edu,
> part of the ibiblio.org family of ftp servers...which means that the
> server is often full. Right now I'm getting the error that tells me that
> there are already 400 people logged in, and that I should try again 
> later.
> :)
>

Huh.. didn't know that.. I guess that changed while I was 'away' :)  
Thanks!  Anyway I changed my sources.list file point at my local mirror 
that sits on I2 for updates and all is better.  I left it pointing at 
ftp.yellowdog.com to avoid delays in the mirror propagation so I can get 
security updates quickly.  But since the master server is the iBiblio 
master and my local mirror is an iBiblio site as well, I think I can 
wait the extra 12 to 24 hours :)

FWIW, The error I was seeing was 'Connection timed out' which typically 
means that either the network between you and the host is down, or the 
host is down.  This is a different response than 'Connection refused' or 
'Too many Connections for your current class of user'

thanks!

-n

> On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, nathan r. hruby wrote:
>
>> Hey.
>>
>> Running apt-update and getting connection timeouts on
>> ftp.yellowdoglinux.com.  Someone doeing a little work on the machine or
>> somehting?
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