RE: something is wrong with cygwin's mirror checker

["Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder@niaid.nih.gov>]

Christopher Faylor sent the following at Tuesday, November 12, 2013 1:30 PM
>On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 01:08:37PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>I don't know why but the mirror checker is screwed up.  The last email I
>>got from the system said that the mirrors were in good shape but
>>http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html tells another story.
>>
>>Just a heads up.  I'm investigating.
>
>Problem identified and (I hope) fixed. It will take a few hours for the
>system to correct itself so mirrors will be scarce until that happens.

This list has recovered a bit but is still very sparse.

It is probably just a coincidence, but my usual mirror,
<ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/cygwin/>, has disappeared, not just from
<http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html>, but when accessed directly with Firefox,
not setup.  Usually it is very reliable.  I doubt that there's anything
that you can do, but I wonder if anl.gov cannot find something that it is
looking for at the cygwin/sourceware end and that that has contributed to
this problem at anl.gov and at least some of the other mirrors.

Best wishes,

- Barry
  Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.


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