egcs.cygnus.com server problems ???

egcs.cygnus.com server problems ???

[David W. Schuler]

I have been having a LOT of problems trying to download the 1998-11-01 snapshot
today.  I have been getting errors all day, and have not been successful in
downloading the entire copy of egcs.  I keep getting the following type of
error from ftp:

    421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
    6286848 bytes received in 1.3e+03 seconds (4.7 Kbytes/s)
    ftp> 

The byte count keeps changing, and the error itself has changed several times.
However, the net is that I have not been able to download the file
egcs-19981101.tar.gz.

Is there a problem with the server???  Has anyone else been successful today
in downloading the file?  I have never had a problem in the past with
downloading from the egcs.cygnus.com server, and am surprised at the problems
I am having today.

(Does the server keep any logs???  Maybe there is something at the other end
 that will be of help in figuring this out.)

Thanks,
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Re: egcs.cygnus.com server problems ???

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199811022306.SAA40134@apache4.btv.ibm.com >you write:
  > 
  > I have been having a LOT of problems trying to download the 1998-11-01
  > snapshot today.  I have been getting errors all day, and have not been
  >  successful in
  > downloading the entire copy of egcs.  I keep getting the following type of
  > error from ftp:
Odds are the link to Cygnus is saturated due to the cygwin b20 release.

If at all possible you should be using one of the mirrors anyway :-)


Jeff

Re: egcs.cygnus.com server problems ???

[Marc Lehmann]

On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 11:33:58AM -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>   > snapshot today.  I have been getting errors all day, and have not been
>   >  successful in
>   > downloading the entire copy of egcs.  I keep getting the following type of
>   > error from ftp:
> Odds are the link to Cygnus is saturated due to the cygwin b20 release.
> 
> If at all possible you should be using one of the mirrors anyway :-)

Actually, the mirrors are sufferung from the same problem (at least
goof.com). I mirror it four times a day, and I get a broken transfer about
once every two weeks.

This occurs ever since I mirror it, and I suspect it is related to the
coredumping problem of the ftpd (remember the "mkdir core" fix?)

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