From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 03:55:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA09211 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 03:55:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA09190 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 03:55:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr by agora.rdrop.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0v5V8i-0008yEC; Tue, 24 Sep 96 03:54 PDT Received: from mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr [134.157.72.87]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.7.6/jtpda-5.2) with SMTP id MAA05672 ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 12:48:00 +0200 (METDST) Received: from iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr (iaka) by mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (5.67b/jn930126+af960905(mailhost)) at Tue, 24 Sep 1996 12:48:22 +0100 Received: by iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr (5.67b/jf930126) at Tue, 24 Sep 1996 12:48:21 +0100 From: af@biomath.jussieu.fr (Alain FAUCONNET) Message-Id: <199609241148.AA06580@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr> Subject: Re: archie To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 12:48:21 +0100 (GMT+0100) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199609240816.KAA04958@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Sep 24, 96 10:16:46 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Christoph Kukulies wrote / a ecrit: > > > Anyone using archie? I never get any response from an archie request. > I remember it worked with a 1.1.5.1 binary but since I'm running >=2.1 > archie always times out. > What server are you using ? (type 'archie -L') It might be dead or overloaded. In Europe, I have found archie.switch.ch and archie.doc.ic.ac.uk to be reasonably responsive. The french one I was using before seems to have died, though :-( Set the ARCHIE_SERVER environment variable to one of the above servers and see what happens. > This may be by coincidence. Has the archie service died in general? > I mean, now that everyone is searching via web? My feeling is that the archie service is not what it used to be. The databases are often badly outdated, presumably because site admins don't care about maintaining the index files archie servers pick up. It is dying ? I hope not. For most of the searches I have to do, it is much more practical than the WEB search engines, and I presume it uses much less net resources. _Alain_ -- Alain FAUCONNET Ingenieur systeme - System Manager AP-HP/SIM Public Health 91 bld de l'Hopital 75013 PARIS FRANCE Medical Computing Research Labs Mail: af@biomath.jussieu.fr Tel: (+33) 1-40-77-96-19 Fax: (+33) 1-45-86-80-68 I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator" But... I *am* the system administrator :-]