On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 05:06:14PM -0700, Christopher Mahmood wrote:

I think I just responded privately to you but others may be wondering about this as well.

yes, thanks for explanations.

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(Please do not point me to mirrors, unless you know any site closer to San Carlos, CA than Oakland) I am using perl mirror package.

Actually, ftp.suse.com now lives in Nuermb?rg Germany as of tuesday of last week. Same with the all of the DNS and mailservers that used to be in Oakland CA.

so now we have to go over Atlantic for anything... :-)

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Looking at mirror logs I realized that command "ls -lRat" stopped recursing into the directory, it just lists the top level.

I looked at ftp.gwdg.de, "ls -lRat" works properly there.

I've disabled recursive ls's since people were abusing it--there is always an up-to-date ls-Ral.txt.gz in /pub. Sorry for the hassle but I didn't have much choice.

I hope that using mirror perl package shipped with SuSE Linux which uses ls -lRat to mirror updates for sparc 7.3 and i386 7.3 is not considered "abusing". If it is against the policy, -- I apologize. -Kastus

On Tue, May 07, Graham Murray wrote:

Christopher Mahmood writes:

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Actually, ftp.suse.com now lives in Nuermbrg Germany as of tuesday of last week. Same with the all of the DNS and mailservers that used to be in Oakland CA.

So does the "request" that those of us in Europe use the ftp.gwdg.de mirror still apply or should we now be using ftp.suse.com?

You should still use a mirror, the load problems on this machine cannot go away through the move to europe. Between, ftp.gwdg.de get the data from the same machine as ftp.suse.com. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE Linux AG Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 D-90429 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B