Re: [Lynx-dev] Fwd: two lynx issues: lynx.isc.org appears to be down, mirror site mistake

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2011, Jonathan Oksman wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was doing some updates on a local linux machine and went to get a
> fresh copy of lynx.  I have been unable to reach the site content at
> lynx.isc.org.  I decided to try and debug whether it was my internet
> flaking out, and tried from an alternate internet source and could
> still not make a connection.
>
> It appears from a traceroute that everything reaches isc.org alright.
> From my position the error seems to be somewhere in between:

isc.org domain is okay, but the lynx.isc.org machine went down sometime in 
the past couple of days.  (I've been checking it 3-4 times a week). The 
machine is on their site somewhere; I emailed my contact there yesterday 
afternoon to see what's wrong.

> int-0-0-1-0.r1.sql1.isc.org [149.20.65.10]  and  lynx.isc.org [149.20.54.242].
>
>
> After some careful searches I was able to find a mirror site at:
> http://artfiles.org/lynx.isc.org/
>
> It claims to have updated yesterday ("last mirrored: Fri Oct 14
> 20:00:22 CEST 2011"), so I assume the inability to connect to
> lynx.isc.org is quite recent.

ok.  I was very busy with $dayjob for a couple of days, so the actual
time was unclear.

> I noticed something else strange while validating the version I was
> trying to download (the most recent 2.8.7 archive).  Here are the
> results of md5sum on the three files I grabbed from the mirror, which
> indicates to me that the file "lynx2.8.7.tar.bz2" is referring to
> rel.1 instead of rel.2.
>
> 493af4c77ef6761e3f0157cd1be033a0 *lynx2.8.7.tar.bz2
> 493af4c77ef6761e3f0157cd1be033a0 *lynx2.8.7rel.1.tar.bz2
> cb936aef812e4e463ab86cbbe14d4db9 *lynx2.8.7rel.2.tar.bz2

that might be just my error in setting up the site.

> A little more searching dug up this thread from the mailing list:
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2011-06/msg00003.html
> So it would seem that this issue has managed to creep up again somehow.

probably a different cause.  lynx.isc.org used to be an alias which
pointed into a shared server.  The guy at ISC built a new server
(whether physical or virtual I don't know), which is separate.
I setup the web- and ftp-services on that server, and aside from
script-kiddies, it's been low-maintainance.

> In addition to the above, the email address listed at lynx.browser.org
> (address@hidden) also appears to be experiencing technical
> difficulties as the provider has rejected this message originally
> aimed at that address.  the browser.org site itself appears to be in
> tact.

lynx.browser.org is someone else (I've no control over that).

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