Hello, On Sat, 18 Oct 2014, Hans Witvliet wrote:

I noticed my rsync's against ftp5.gwdg.de are failing, but that happened before. However, scheduled maintenance or problems are normally mentioned on the UNI's main page, which is also unreachable.

The Uni's <http://www.uni-goettingen.de/> or GWDG's <http://www.gwdg.de/> main page or that of the Max Planck Gesellschaft's <http://www.mpg.de/>?

Even the initial page of the city-council is down, just like the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine.

Is there a black-out in that region?

Fine now from here (22:55 CEST/20:55 UTC). Anyway, whichever main page you meant, the GWDG's News page <http://www.gwdg.de/index.php?id=aktuell&no_cache=1&L=1> links to this: http://www.gwdg.de/index.php?id=90&no_cache=1&L=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=3000&tx_ttnews[backPid]=3 In the german version of that they state they "feverishly work on the issue". The site is already up again, also both ftp.gwdg.de and ftp5.gwdg.de via both ftp and http. Don't know about it via rsync. Generally, the DFN (<http://dfn.de>, there doesn't seem to be an english version[0]) which is the main connection (100GBit?) for the GWDG AFAIK, is very reliable. I've yet to notice _any_ outage in their net since I know of the DFN (since about 1998 or so, both for my Uni-login as well as a SuSE-mirror ;) -dnh [0] guessing from your name and and domain there's a good chance you can at least guess-read german, so I hope that's not a big problem ;) -- Einsatz von Kraftpunkt ist ein _deutliches_ Alarmsignal fuer harte Bogonenstrahlung. -- A. Schreiber -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org