[Rd] CRAN down ?

[Friedrich Leisch]

>>>>> On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 11:45:41 -0500,
>>>>> Dirk Eddelbuettel (DE) wrote:

  > There seems to be another outage of the Vienna CRAN server [1] though from
  > what I can from afar not related to DNS outage [2].

  > Could anyone confirm and possibly alert the local team in Vienna?

Seems to work fine for me, both http and ping from non-WU machines
(but of course from Vienna):

leisch using nona01:~$ ping cran.r-project.org
PING cran.wu-wien.ac.at (137.208.57.37) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from cran.wu-wien.ac.at (137.208.57.37): icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=1.43 ms
64 bytes from cran.wu-wien.ac.at (137.208.57.37): icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=1.22 ms
64 bytes from cran.wu-wien.ac.at (137.208.57.37): icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=1.62 ms
64 bytes from cran.wu-wien.ac.at (137.208.57.37): icmp_seq=4 ttl=58 time=1.47 ms

Best,
Fritz