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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
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To: firewind <firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 10:35:41 +0000
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firewind <firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org> wrote:

> Paul Derbyshire <ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA> wrote:
> 
> > firewind (firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org) writes:
> > > ...but ftp.cdrom.com should be fairly reliable.
> 
> > I don't know about now, but as of a few weeks ago ftp.cdrom.com was really
> > UNreliable, down sometimes and often you'd go to get a file from it or
> > view a directory and get garbage like "Extended info error" and stuff
> > instead of a directory/file. I hope they've fixed that since then but I
> > won't believe anything except my own five senses where this is concerned.
> 
> Yes, I believe cdrom.com had a disk crash a while back. Regardless, it is
> -overall- the most reliable of the simtelnet mirrors. No one mirror is
> perfect 100% of the time.

ftp.cdrom.com isn't a mirror IS Simtelnet (not the coast to coast repository, 
that's a copy right story). Walnut Creek is the main site for Simtelnet and 
other things, like the FreeBSD distribution. This machine have 1Gb of RAM 
and supports 3000 ftp users.

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