At 11:13 am 23/2/96, Scott Reynolds wrote:
>On Fri, 23 Feb 1996, Julian Bean wrote:
>
>> On small collections (ksrc-mac68k,doc) it works absolutely fine.
>> However, allsrc and ksrc are a complete no-no. After a while they
>> get Network read & write errors (apparently, connection reset by
>> peer).
>
>This needs to be taken to a mountain top and shouted loud and clear:
>
>    *** IT'S NOT THE FAULT OF THE SUP/FTP SERVER! ***
>
>It was determined some time ago problems with a certain router between
>many hosts on the West Coast of the US and the rest of the world.  If you
>happen to be fortunate enough to have your traffic go through this router,
>it will eventually choke on a "magic bit pattern" that _will_ get
>corrupted.  (This problem affects Netcom, as well, by the way... a site
>that undoubtably gets far more traffic.)

Apologies for not having dug this out of the archives.  Message received
loud and clear.  How about sticking it in README.sup in the supkit?

Here is the traceroute from my PPP-dialup machine and sup.netbsd.org.  Does
anyone know or remember the offending machine - because I may well be able
to get my ISP to clout them until they make it work?


 1  chandler.mailbox.co.uk (205.199.253.7)  108.967 ms  112.052 ms  108.552 ms
 2  g1p2.uk0.vbc.net (204.137.193.129)  186.407 ms  125.528 ms  238.515 ms
 3  kg2.uk0.vbc.net (204.137.193.7)  687.311 ms  546.963 ms  816.498 ms
 4  agis-vbc.santaclara.agis.net (205.137.63.237)  1568.57 ms  545.531 ms
767.341 ms
 5  mae-west.best.net (198.32.136.36)  758.849 ms  511.659 ms  442.319 ms
 6  netbsd.warped.com (206.86.8.12)  387.354 ms  407.883 ms  388.518 ms


Any precise details on the problem would be much appreciated.  I'd love to
crack this one.

Jules


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