[R] CRAN unavailable?

[Yves Gauvreau]

Hi,

I don't know if I'm lucky or what but as the R Web site is concern I never
had any problem getting there. Could be because my ISP is Bell Canada and
they probably have more available routes over which they have control.

I notice though that Email is another story. I happens very often that I get
mail from the list that are answers to question I haven't received yet.
Sometimes both question and answer are received at the same time. I know,
you'll tell me that my Email software is requesting mail from the server at
some interval. I agree but then how come I get the answer from one request
and I get the question at the next retrieval? (It doesn't really matter but
I'm surprised every time it happen and it does quite a lot)

Yves Gauvreau
B.E.F.P. Universite du Quebec a Montreal
cyg at sympatico.ca

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch]De la part de Peter Dalgaard BSA
> Envoye : Saturday, January 13, 2001 2:06 PM
> A : Peter Kleiweg
> Cc : r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Objet : Re: [R] CRAN unavailable?
>
>
> 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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