[R] CRAN unavailable?

[Ko-Kang@xtra.co.nz]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yves Gauvreau" <cyg at sympatico.ca>
To: "Peter Dalgaard BSA" <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk>; "Peter Kleiweg"
<kleiweg at let.rug.nl>
Cc: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 1:57 PM
Subject: RE: [R] CRAN unavailable?



> 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.

Yes.  And sometimes it takes me more than 12 hours to receive the
question(s) I posted to the listed.  Sometimes I even get the answer back
before I received the questions I posted out!

Ko-Kang Wang

> 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,...)
> >
> > --
> >    O__  ---- Peter Dalgaard             Blegdamsvej 3
> >   c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics     2200 Cph. N
> >  (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen   Denmark      Ph: (+45) 35327918
> > ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk)             FAX: (+45) 35327907
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