[R] Main R Project and CRAN sites down?

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"Marc Schwartz" <mschwartz at medanalytics.com> writes:

> > > We are just coming off our own power outage (bad storms) here in the
> > > southwestern suburbs of Minneapolis, so I was just able to get back
> on
> > > the net.
> > 
> > So maybe this is the problem and some DNS Servers or internet
> > connections are not up again or broken?
> > Those CRAN servers are running...
> > 
> > Uwe
> 
> The power outage was localized here in a small geographic area and was
> only about two hours this morning.  I am not aware (yet) of any larger
> scale issues. I had the same access problems last night prior to the
> storm's effect and I have no other problems getting to my routine daily
> web sites. Stephen's problem in Florida would also suggest that the
> local problems here in Minneapolis are not the proximate cause.

Right.

> Peter, when I ping:
> 
> http://cran.dk.r-project.org/
> http://cran.au.r-project.org/
> http://cran.br.r-project.org/
> http://cran.us.r-project.org/
> http://cran.de.r-project.org/
> http://cran.uk.r-project.org/
> http://cran.za.r-project.org/
> 
> they resolve to the same IP address (128.105.174.95) with a domain of
> franz.stat.wisc.edu.  Is that correct?

I think yes. Franz does a URL rewrite and sends you to the relevant
site. They work for me from here (at least the 1st three).
 
> I cannot get a reply when pinging these sites. I presume that this is
> disabled to prevent DoS attacks.  I get the following with tracert:

Yes, that is normal.

Something weird is going on in Austria, though. Apparently some
subnets can ping the main CRAN site but not get through on any ports.


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