Problems accessing ibiblio...

moosesocks · n00b Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 36

When bootstrapping, I can't seem to access ibiblio. I'm able to resolve the hostname to the ip 152.2.210.81

BUT, that ip seems to lead to nowhere. I've tried from the windows machine i'm using now, and it doesn't seem to work either.

Silhouette · n00b Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 46

i've been trying to merge kde. but ibiblio isn't responding. hope not; this could be very bad.

mrhodes · Guru Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 310 Location: Halifax, NS

Is there a way to change the default download location?

gatech.edu works, but I don't know how to use that to install from.... anyone know how to change this?

Mike

mrhodes · Guru Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 310 Location: Halifax, NS

WooHoo.... found the file to edit!

/etc/make.globals

right at the top, change www.ibiblio.org ..... to www.gatech.org .....

I'm gonna try it now.... hope it works

Mike

rac · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 11:27 pm Post subject:

mrhodes · Guru Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 310 Location: Halifax, NS

Hmmm... that didn't work anyway

I wish ibiblio would work....

I'm sitting here at a command prompt getting redy to start building stage 1!!

Hmmm, I guess I'll just wait, and keep trying

Mike

moosesocks · n00b Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 36

this concerns me. ibiblio AND UNC seem to be down. this could be very bad.

rac · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 11:40 pm Post subject:

ibiblio is hosted at UNC, and UNC's name servers seem to be unreachable. I can't ping either ns or ns2.unc.edu. Does adding a GENTOO_MIRRORS line in make.conf not help things? Have you tried sunsite.dk or linux.no?
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moosesocks · n00b Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 36

can't find the latest version of portage on the mirrors, portage thinks it's r3, the mirrors think it's r2

rac · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 11:44 pm Post subject:

They're listed in http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml. A sample GENTOO_MIRRORS line is in /etc/make.globals: just copy it to /etc/make.conf and edit the URL.
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moosesocks · n00b Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 36

can't find the latest version of portage on the mirrors, portage thinks it's r3, the mirrors think it's r2

rac · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 11:57 pm Post subject:

Well, the mirrors probably are having a hard time contacting ibiblio as well. Can you try masking that version of portage, or just deleting or moving that ebuild away?

EDIT: ibiblio is responding for me now.
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mooman · Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2002 12:04 am Post subject:

ibiblio is probably one overworked network... My wife needed me to grab Chaucer's Canterbury Tales for her today, so I pulled a copy from Project Gutenberg and was really surprised to see ibiblio being used as a backend for that project too.. And it was sloooow for me doing that too...
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Silhouette · n00b Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 46

it up now. i think all of ibiblio was down. even their webserver was not taking requests.

moosesocks · n00b Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 36

ok. it's happily bootstrapping now. I deleted the ebuild from the tree. I'll just merge the new version later now that ibiblio is back up.