Bunnies for Porting Centre help

[Kelli Ward]

Hi all,
I have been trying to connect to the HP-UX Porting and Archive Centre (Utah mirror) for a couple of days now. Wisconsin is down and has a splash page for this Utah is consistantly giving me 10060 Connection timed out.
Can anybody else get to it?
Or does anyone know the story?
Note: I can get to the UK site, but would like to know what's up.

Easter is coming and I'm in the mood to give free bunnies. Please let me know.
Thanks,
Kel

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Kel,

I've been experiencing the exact same scenario. Wisconsin has been down for nearly a year, I think. Utah hasn't responded for two or three weeks. Thank goodness for UK!


Pete

[Patrick Wallek]

Hmmm.....I thought it was just me. I have had some trouble getting to http://hpux.cs.utah.edu recently. I tried it just now and it came up fine for me.

Wisconsin has been down for quite a while. I've given up on that mirror.

I generally use either Utah or the original in the UK. http://hpux.connect.org.uk

[S.K. Chan]

Nope for..
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu
(the last time I managed to get in was last week of Mar)

Ok for ..
http://hpux.tn.tudelft.nl
http://hpux.cict.fr
http://hpux.asknet.de
http://hpux.connect.org.uk

[Kelli Ward]

Hi,
I was starting to pull hair.
I'm having intermittant problems with ITRC connection with 10060's and 404's, but Utah is consistent. (I know some is on my end.)
Case in point, I had to submit this post 4 times to get it to go.
I've never used it, is the UK mirror identical to the Utah? I was a bit worried about language support UK english vs. US.

Thanks,

[Paul Sperry]

yep

I have hade the same problem
So I start using UK
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/

I haven't noticed any differences between it and Utah so far.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Kelli:

These porting centers don't respond for me:

USA: (Utah): http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/
USA: (Wisconson): http://hpux.cae.wisc.edu/
Italy: http://hpux.dsi.unimi.it/
South Africa: http://hpux.petech.ac.za/
Japan: http://hpux.u-aizu.ac.jp/

...and....

These site are available:

UK: http://hpux.connect.org.uk/
Germany: http://hpux.asknet.de/
France: http://hpux.cict.fr/
Netherlands: http://hpux.its.tudelft.nl/
Canada: http://hpux.ee.ualberta.ca/

...perhaps you want to bookmark more than one...

Regards!

...JRF...

[Kelli Ward]

Thanks,
I'm over at the UK site and have it bookmarked as well.
I sent an email to the UK site asking if they knew anything. I'm curious now.
With a little luck they might actually answer.
If they do I'll reply to this post.
Thanks again,
Kel

[Ron Cornwell]

I have always used http://hpux.connect.org.uk/ with no problems. Post what you find out.

[Steven E. Protter]

I believe I have connected to utah in the last three weeks, though most of the time it has been down. I got lsof there, within the last week or so.

I have now run tests. My test results are in line with JRF's post.

My method of access has never been bookmark. I have software.hp.com bookmarked and clicked the Public Domain link.

Perhaps HP should make an inquiry as to the status of the porting server and change their link to a site thats up more than its down.

SEP

[Kelli Ward]

Hi Steven,
Thinking that the UK centre might not know/care what the heck I'm talking about, I went to the main site of the of the utah mirror (which was up by the way) and sent an email to their webmaster, we'll see if I get anything back.
Now, about your points, I tried to post them 4 times but the submit button doesn't seem to be functioning fully.
If your points didn't show up, I'll try again later.
Thanks,
Kel

[Pete Randall]

Kel,

We should be giving you points for your efforts in trying to resolve the "Utah Issue". At the very least, here's a thankyou: Thanks!


Pete

[Kelli Ward]

Thanks!
I'd settle for 3 points.
Then I become a purple pointy person!
Oooo... so close and yet so far. :-p
Haven't heard anything, but I'll let everyone know if I do.
Kel

[Pete Randall]

Kel,

If you would like, simply reply to this thread and you'll have yourself a nice new hat:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xaa56b82b2d63d71190080090279cd0f9,00.html

I checked - you haven't replied to it yet, so it's perfectly legitimate and I'd be proud to be the one to put your over the top.


Pete

[Kelli Ward]

Hey,
I just had a thought, if anyone is interested, here is the email address of the utah site web master. maybe if a number of us are interested and email them, they'll either work on it or give us an answer.
Can I entice anyone with a bunny for a response? I'm okay with a little light bribery. ;)

webmaster@cs.utah.edu

Maybe they'll be more inclined to do something if they know (hear from) there are many people that depend on them.

Kel

[Pete Randall]

Kel,

The check is in the (e)mail!


Pete

[Jason Martens]

I sent an e-mail to the webmaster and got the following reply:

This not an "official" cs.utah.edu site, but it should be up...although it
was down a few weeks ago. The person who maintains it has been notified
and hopefully it'll be back up soon.

AFAIK, he plans to keep the mirror running.

Christopher Strong
University of Utah

[Kelli Ward]

Hi Jason,
Thanks for the update.
Here's your first bunny.
Treat him kind, may he be fruitful and multiply. ;)
Kel

[Pete Randall]

Kel,

Honestly, have you ever heard of a bunny that wasn't fruitful and didn't multiply? We may need to encourage, maybe even cajole but we can hook Jason on the forums - I just know it!

Pete

(N/A, please)

[Yogeeraj_1]

Hi,

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu
still not working!

so, i've updated my favourites to http://hpux.connect.org.uk

just wondering if the contents of those sites listed above are different...

hopefully, we won't find other mirror sites "closing down".

Best Regards
Yogeeraj

[Balaji N]

Hi,


I always use the UK site. consisten and always available. i will not say its pretty fast though.

cheers
-balaji

[Michael Tully]

Sorry, but I gave up on the US sites ages ago. I always use the UK site or Japan.

Unfortunately OZ doesn't have one, otherwise I'd use it ...

[Mehdi_1]

Hi All

Why HPUX Archive sites are down??
It is simple!! hardware problem.

Wisconsin went down more than a year ago, because of hardware problem.

Utah went down about three weeks ago and it came back up again a week ago, It was functional for about three days and It went down last Tue.

It is the same problem for all other site that are not functional and even most of the functional one.

If HP doesn't supply some of these sites with more recent machine, you will soon see more site will go down.

Nearly all these sites are using ancient machine (12 -15 years old) to mirror the HPUX Archive. This the exact reason that we can not offer more binary for more platforms.


If anyone has anymore query, you can send me email:

lavasani@connect.org.uk

Thanks to all of you

Mehdi
HPUX Porting Center

[Pete Randall]

Hi Kel!

By the way, that hat looks absolutely fabulous!

I got this reply from Christopher Strong at cs.utah.edu (presumably, he's the webmaster?):

"The person who maintains this server is not currently in, and the rest of us don't want to mess with the machine. Hopefully when he arrives he can bring it back up.

-Chris"


So, the answer appears to be "maybe someday."


Pete

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

The UK site has lots of apps at lower levels than the utah site. I don't go there first because of that, but it is much better than some of the others, notably the French site:

UK/CA/DE:tusc-7.3
FR:tusc-7.0

CA/DE/UK: apache2-2.0.35
FR: apache-1.3.20

Later,
Bill