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Subject: Re: sups from SUP.FreeBSD.ORG not working well anymore :-(
To: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 10:18:07 +0100 (MET)
Cc: bob@luke.pmr.com, freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199512142119.OAA14491@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Dec 14, 95 02:19:24 pm
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> 
> Bob Willcox writes:
> > Well, sup has gone from bad to worse for me.  I can no longer get it to
> > work at all!  Using sup.freebsd.org I am now getting:
> > 
> > SUP 8.26 (4.3 BSD) for file stable-supfile at Dec 14 09:14:46
> > SUP: Can't find host entry for sup.FreeBSD.org
> > SUP: Will retry in 73 seconds
> > SUP: Can't find host entry for sup.FreeBSD.org
> 
> This means your host can't resolve sup.FreeBSD.org, and it's now sup's
                                                               not


> fault.
> 
> > and with sup2.freebsd.org its simply:
> > 
> > SUP 8.26 (4.3 BSD) for file stable-supfile at Dec 14 09:27:58
> > SUP: Can't connect to server for supfilesrv: Operation timed out
> 
> This means it can't make a network connection to sup2.FreeBSD.org, which
> is a network problem and again not sup's fault.
> 
> The Internet in and around the Bay area is having *lots* of problems due
> to the recent storms, so I wouldn't expect everything to work for
> awhile.

Maybe it's a good idea to insert freefall's IP address in the sup file
to make sup more robust against outage of other network resources.
> 
> 
> 
> Nate
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de