brando@uiucme2.me.uiuc.edu (Brando W. Brown) (03/23/90)
I don't how often you others on the net login into SIMTEL via anonymous ftp. I have tried for the last two weeks at all times during the day and night including a try just last night at 4am, and it ALWAYS tells me that there are too many anonymous-ftp users and try again later; well, I did, with no avail. Anyway to get to the point; if you are using a UNIX system and need alot of the archives from the news groups here, try wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) they never seem too busy after 9pm... If you are still unable to locate good X/Y/Z Modem protocol transfer programs, I have the source for rzsz that I can post here if I get enough mail.. Brando +============================================================================+ | Brandon Brown Internet: brando@uiucme.me.uiuc.edu | | Addamax Corporation UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!addamax!brown | | 2009 Fox Drive GEnie: xmg23356 macbrando | | Champaign, IL 61820 CompuServe: 73040,447 | +============================================================================+
mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) (03/23/90)
In article <1990Mar22.224852.14842@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> brando@uiucme2.UUCP (Brando W. Brown) writes: >I don't how often you others on the net login into SIMTEL via anonymous ftp. >I have tried for the last two weeks at all times during the day and night >including a try just last night at 4am, and it ALWAYS tells me that there are >too many anonymous-ftp users and try again later; well, I did, with no avail. Here's what's going on with SIMTEL: 1) The SIMTEL system itself is far from overloaded. 2) The problem is that their Internet connection is to the Milnet, which has had serious connectivity performance problems with the rest of the Internet. A secondary problem is that SIMTEL's local Milnet packet switch had resource starvation problems. The upshot of all of this was that SIMTEL's 56kb link to the world was being slowed down even more. 3) The problems on SIMTEL's Milnet packet switch are being fixed. 4) SIMTEL is working on getting a connection to NSFNET, which will avoid the Milnet connectivity problems. Perhaps later this year this will all take place. _____ ____ ---+--- /-\ Mark Crispin Atheist & Proud _|_|_ _|_ || ___|__ / / 6158 Lariat Loop NE R90/6 pilot |_|_|_| /|\-++- |=====| / / Bainbridge Island, WA "Gaijin! Gaijin!" --|-- | |||| |_____| / \ USA 98110-2098 "Gaijin ha doko ka?" /|\ | |/\| _______ / \ +1 (206) 842-2385 "Niichan ha gaijin." / | \ | |__| / \ / \ mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU "Chigau. Gaijin ja nai. kisha no kisha ga kisha de kisha-shita Omae ha gaijin darou." sumomo mo momo, momo mo momo, momo ni mo iroiro aru "Iie, boku ha nihonjin." uraniwa ni wa niwa, niwa ni wa niwa niwatori ga iru "Souka. Yappari gaijin!"