On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Just a minor thought regarding FTP-servers that are down. What would
you think about storing a copy of the packages on e.g. ftp.lyx.org?
I don't think we should do this. We surely have enough traffic and also
lyx.org is sometimes down.
I know all the hosts are confusing, but here's how it goes (I think!).
Domain Machine
lyx.org = aussie.lyx.org (62.70.27.115)
www.lyx.org = aussie.lyx.org (62.70.27.115)
wiki.lyx.org = aussie.lyx.org (62.70.27.115)
aussie.lyx.org = aussie.lyx.org (62.70.27.115)
bugzilla.lyx.org = aussie.lyx.org (62.70.27.115)
ftp.devel.lyx.org = aussie.lyx.org (62.70.27.115)
ftp.lyx.org = krishna.via.ecp.fr (138.195.130.71)
Note that ftp.lyx.org is on a different machine from the rest. This is
important because it is ausse.lyx.org that is sometimes down (or just
extremely slow). The reason it is slow might be because of bugs in trac,
the SVN repository browser - I don't know.
Anyway, the point is that I don't think ftp.lyx.org has these problems,
which means placing a copy of packages on that server might still be a
very good solution. In fact, a downloading installer should look at both
hosts in order to increase availability. E.g., with 99% availability for
each machine separately, we get a combined availability of 99.99%. That
must be good enough for our needs.
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
