Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 12:48:21 +0100 (GMT+0100) From: af@biomath.jussieu.fr (Alain FAUCONNET) To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: archie Message-ID: <199609241148.AA06580@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <199609240816.KAA04958@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Sep 24, 96 10:16:46 am
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Christoph Kukulies wrote / a ecrit:
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> 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.
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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databases are often badly outdated, presumably because site admins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_
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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 :-]
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