[R] CRAN unavailable?

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Peter Kleiweg <kleiweg at let.rug.nl> writes:

> Somehow, the domain names *.r-project.org could not be resolved.
> This means, not only all the web sites were unreachable, but
> also the ftp-server, and my message to r-help didn't get
> through. By the time my message was delivered, the web sites
> were also available.

Most likely, this is the result of a flaky name server somewhere along
the way. I've noticed a similar effect with our Sun servers: if they
lose the connection to the world for a while, they start claiming that
hosts are nonexistent

> It was only for an hour or so. Not like a few weeks back, when
> non of the r-project.org sites were available for days, just at
> the time I wanted to install R on a new machine.

It can actually be quite hard to navigate if the connection to
Wisconsin gets cut off: some sites are aliased to franz, whose web
server then redirects requests. This goes for cran.dk.r-project.org
for instance. Also, the link from the R home page to CRAN is to
cran.r-project.org which requires a nameserver lookup. (Of course if
you *know* that the DK site is really http://sunsite.dk/R, and that
the sources in Austria are at http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/R/src,...)

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