Jules wrote....
anyone else having trouble accessing bitsavers in the
last couple of days?
transfers seem to be prone to massive slowdowns ( < 2KB/s ) from here (but
other sites are fine).
Well, the first and most obvious question is - which mirror
were you trying
to pull the files from?
If it was the local bitsavers on classiccmp... Quest had a "bad hair day"
and dropped a router. As it happens, the way they re-routed stuff, traffic
to me (and many others) in St. Louis was routed oddly - like... washington
or something. In any case, there were drops and now there is delays during
the re-route. The last status I got from about 2 hours ago was "we should
have it fixed and back to routing as normal in a few hours".
Of course, if you were using any of the many many mirrors, this wouldn't
have been the issue. Did you try a mirror?
Jay West