There are a couple of mirror sites -  Perhaps a blurb should be added to
index.storsys.ibm.com (or the 'maximum sessions exceeded....' message)
to indicate what mirror sites are available ???  Here are the mirror
sites I know about... there might be more

ftp.cac.psu.edu   (East Coast USA)
ftp.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de  (Europe)


Tim Pittson
tpittson AT himail.hcc DOT com

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>From:  Richard Sims[SMTP:rbs AT ACS.BU DOT EDU]
>Sent:  Wednesday, June 19, 1996 10:01 AM
>To:    Multiple recipients of list ADSM-L
>Subject:       IBM: FTP site upgrades needed
>
>IBM - ADSM customers need some improvements in the ADSM FTP site...
>
>1. First and foremost, when you emplace a "fixes" file, please compress
>it!
>   The AIX 3.2 client fixes file, for example
>(aix32.v2r1m3.IP20800.smit)
>   is 36 MB (!) in size.  Given the paltry speed of the storsys
>Internet
>   connection, it took a horrendous 23 HOURS to transmit that sucker.
>   File compression would have rendered that less painful and
>vulnerable
>   to interruption, given the time exposure.
>
>2. Please pass on to IBM management that the storsys FTP site is
>woefully
>   underconfigured...
>    - It lacks overall capacity, such that customers needing
>information
>      and fixes often find that they can't get in, encountering the
>      all-too-familiar message:
>       The maximum ftp sessions has been exceeded on
>index.storsys.ibm.com!
>    - The speed of your Internet connection appears to be far too low
>to
>      begin serving the volume of data which that site has to serve.
>      Customers running enterprises can't afford to wait 23 hours to
>get
>      a download of fixes when things are failing around them.
>   Suffice to say that ADSTAR management has to start taking this FTP
>site
>   seriously and finally commit the resources commensurate with
>providing
>   the level of service that is required.  Customers are disappointed
>that
>   ADSTAR hasn't been proactive in dealing with this situation.
>
>                      Richard Sims, Boston University OIT
>