[R] tolstoi.newcastle dead?

[Patrick Connolly]

On Sat, 31-May-2008 at 06:07PM -0400, Carl Witthoft wrote:

> Anyone know what's up w/ tolstoi.newcast.edu.au (home of the
> threaded R-help archives)?  I've got a "can't connect" for several
> days now.

No luck here either, even with the correct spelling.


$ ping tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au
PING tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au (134.148.236.121) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au ping statistics ---
14 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 13002ms


$ ping tolstoi.newcastle.edu.au
ping: unknown host tolstoi.newcastle.edu.au

Seems to be a problem with that machine.  The site itself is fine:

$ ping newcastle.edu.au
PING newcastle.edu.au (134.148.4.164) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www.newcastle.edu.au (134.148.4.164): icmp_seq=1 ttl=240 time=79.6 ms
64 bytes from www.newcastle.edu.au (134.148.4.164): icmp_seq=2 ttl=240 time=80.7 ms
64 bytes from www.newcastle.edu.au (134.148.4.164): icmp_seq=3 ttl=240 time=154 ms
64 bytes from www.newcastle.edu.au (134.148.4.164): icmp_seq=4 ttl=240 time=115 ms
64 bytes from www.newcastle.edu.au (134.148.4.164): icmp_seq=5 ttl=240 time=78.9 ms
64 bytes from www.newcastle.edu.au (134.148.4.164): icmp_seq=6 ttl=240 time=80.3 ms

--- newcastle.edu.au ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 78.968/98.247/154.790/28.355 ms


Doesn't help to explain much, but at least you know it's not only you.

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