Re: FTP site upgrades needed
1996-06-19 17:33:31
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
>----------
>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
>
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