On 25 June 2010 08:50, DEWI wrote: > > Hi all, > Setup.exe reports that the mirror > > ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ > > is no longer on the official Cygwin mirror list. > > That seems a bit strange to me because this was a mirror for years and > worked exceptional fast and stable. > Also all the other german mirrors disappear from the list. > > Ok than I tried the remaining mirrors > ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de > ftp://ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de > > they are not working. > > Only basemirror.de works. > > Why all the working mirrors disappear and why do the most of the remaining > not work ?? > Who made this decision ?
I think they automatically (and temporarily) fall off the list if they're not sufficiently up-to-date, which I'd guess is something to do with the large numbers of updates recently. Dresden and Bochum are still working fine for me. Andy ps: Btw, your habit of starting a new thread for every reply is rather annoying. Please consider changing your subscription from digest to message-by-message and use your mailer to dump Cygwin mail into a separate folder. pps: Mailing list admins, is there really any need for the digest option? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
