In article <9404102305.AA11226@emunix.emich.edu>, Chris Hopps writes:

> > 	Ummm, how about the fact that Sun Lamp is very rarely, if ever,
> > 	reachable via FTP; as a practical matter... sun-lamp is HEAVILY
> > 	used and has very low limits on ftp and other services. While
> > 	it's nice to have stuff on sun-lamp, it will be almost impossible
> > 	for anybody to actually retrieve binaries via ftp from sun-lamp. At
> > 	least ftp.eunet.ch isn't ALWAYS busy... Even the mirrors might
> > 	have a touch time getting in.
> 
> Umm, the mirrors that exist now get through fine.  I prefer ftp'ing to 
> US sites as well should other US residents..  I get 90k/s to US sites
> 5k/s to eunet. As I stated before sun-lamp gets mirrored all over the 
> world eunet does not get mirrored to the states.
> 
> No-one should be trying to ftp to sun-lamp.
> 
> sup and ftp mirrors exist.  try ftp.iastate.edu in (US)

Well, at least for me here in germany ftp.iastate.edu is as slow as
sun-lamp... are there any other mirrors on this side on the atlantic?

What about uni-erlangen.de, I think it's actually a mirror of ftp.eunet.ch,
will it mirror sun-lamp in the future?

cu, Lutz Vieweg

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  "Ich habe nichts zu sagen. Mir faellt auch nichts mehr ein.
   Denn alles was sie fragen, zerstoert mein nacktes Sein."
  ('Schliessmuskel' / "Metamorphose")

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