Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 13:34:26 +0200 From: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies) To: af@biomath.jussieu.fr (Alain FAUCONNET) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies), freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: archie Message-ID: <199609241134.NAA05600@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199609241148.AA06580@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr>; from Alain FAUCONNET on Sep 24, 1996 12:48:21 %2B0100 References: <199609241148.AA06580@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr>
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Alain FAUCONNET writes: > 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. I'm using archie.th-darmstadt.de > 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 databases are often badly outdated, presumably because site admins 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. WEB searches often bring up so much unwanted stuff that I believe their resource waste is bigger :-) Or do you know an elegant search on ftp server related only stuff yielding results in the terse form archie gives? > > _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 :-] -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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