Alix.inria.fr down?

Kevin Fisher kfisher at rim.net
Fri Apr 30 11:22:18 UTC 1999


ah..  Is the latest UNIX code mirrored somewhere else?  Xombul
doesn't seem to work either (the new firewall is up?).



On 30-Apr-99 Ian Piumarta wrote:
>> Is the UNIX Squeak distribution site (alix.inria.fr) down?  I've been
>> trying to get on for several days without success.
> 
> I'm afraid so.  She (an SS1+) died of old age.  I've enabled global
> FTP access to xombul.inria.fr (the machine that actually hosts the FTP
> partition), so you could try there instead.  But this is going to be a
> short-lived luxury since the "powers that be" are enabling a firewall
> shortly (a matter of days).  Not that we've been attacked: they just
> thought it would be good for INRIA's "image". :-(
> 
> I'm currently trying to set up an alternate server on the outside of
> the firewall (and at the same time register a DNS alias for it called
> "squeak.inria.fr" :^), but there may well be a period in the next few
> weeks during which no FTP access whatsoever to Squeak stuff at INRIA
> is possible.
> 
> Ian





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