From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Espie To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [PATCH] Partial mirror list update Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 09:26:00 -0000 Message-id: <20000704182633.A6668@bonnie.liafa.jussieu.fr> X-SW-Source: 2000-07/msg00043.html I got peeved after contacting many sites that DON'T carry snapshots. Here is a partial update, I've checked mirrors up to the beginning of the japanese list. Note sysg.kek.jp. Their ftp server uses an utterly bogus reverse DNS check. It won't accept espie@ as a valid email address... I can't even figure out what it does, but I am NOT behind a firewall, in fact I tried connecting from three different sites which ALL have a direct permanent connection to the Internet, without any success at all! No machine name, no MX record, nothing. *** mirrors.html.orig Tue Jul 4 17:46:37 2000 --- mirrors.html Tue Jul 4 18:22:01 2000 *************** *** 25,79 **** --- 25,76 ---- *************** *** 97,105 **** ! !
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The GCC team From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Marc Espie Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Partial mirror list update Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 09:35:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <20000704182633.A6668@bonnie.liafa.jussieu.fr> X-SW-Source: 2000-07/msg00044.html On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Marc Espie wrote: > Here is a partial update, I've checked mirrors up > to the beginning of the japanese list. Thanks! > Note sysg.kek.jp. Their ftp server uses an utterly bogus reverse DNS > check. It won't accept espie@ as a valid email address... I can't even > figure out what it does, For me it worked; perhaps its sensitive to the time? Or they do block French users for some reasons? Anyway, please go ahead and install your patch (perhaps unifying "released only, no snapshots" and "no snapshots") and feel free to install similiar changes without explicit approval in the future. Thanks, Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ Have a look at http://petition.eurolinux.org -- it's not about Linux, btw! From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexandre Oliva To: Gerald Pfeifer Cc: Marc Espie , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Partial mirror list update Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 10:52:00 -0000 Message-id: References: X-SW-Source: 2000-07/msg00045.html On Jul 4, 2000, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > Anyway, please go ahead and install your patch (perhaps unifying > "released only, no snapshots" and "no snapshots") and feel free > to install similiar changes without explicit approval in the future. Wouldn't it be nice to have two separate sections, one with sites that carry releases and snapshots, and another with sites that carry only releases? -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist *Please* write to mailing lists, not to me From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Espie To: aoliva@redhat.com Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Partial mirror list update Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 15:27:00 -0000 Message-id: <200007042226.AAA04732@quatramaran.ens.fr> References: X-SW-Source: 2000-07/msg00050.html In article < or4s65aimh.fsf@guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br > you write: >On Jul 4, 2000, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > >> Anyway, please go ahead and install your patch (perhaps unifying >> "released only, no snapshots" and "no snapshots") and feel free >> to install similiar changes without explicit approval in the future. > >Wouldn't it be nice to have two separate sections, one with sites that >carry releases and snapshots, and another with sites that carry only >releases? Yes, I am afraid this is starting to make sense.... I would even say: do we need the sites that carry only the releases ? After all, gcc is a gnu program, right ? and there are enough gnu mirrors around the world... and it's not like there is a shortage of snapshots mirrors yet, but it is getting fairly harrowing to go through the list to find the genuine active mirrors. All in all, I still see the same trend spreading... mirrors have limited space, stuff is growing, and when the space gets sparse, the `unused, useless stuff' is always what vanishes first... nightmarish world of unix ftp servers that only carries 386 binary rpms... :( From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Marc Espie Cc: aoliva@redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Partial mirror list update Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 15:47:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <200007042226.AAA04732@quatramaran.ens.fr> X-SW-Source: 2000-07/msg00051.html On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Marc Espie wrote: > I would even say: do we need the sites that carry only the releases ? > After all, gcc is a gnu program, right ? and there are enough gnu mirrors > around the world... I agree. > and it's not like there is a shortage of snapshots mirrors yet, but it > is getting fairly harrowing to go through the list to find the genuine > active mirrors. Unless someone raises serious objections, I will accept any patch that a) removes mirrors that do not carry snapshots and/or b) removes mirrors that are more or less inactive. In addition I think that in the future we should also list a contact responsible for a mirror, so that we can check in case or problems, similiar to http://www.gnu.org/server/list-mirrors.html . Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ Have a look at http://petition.eurolinux.org -- it's not about Linux, btw!