Re: Serious problems accessing cvs

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <m3g0u3vwj6.fsf@nick.ws.noc.dsvr.net>you write:
  > kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) writes:
  > 
  > >     > Who else is having problems?
  > > 
  > >     I am. It depends on the time of the day; access is ok during the
  > >     European morning; and terrible in the evening and early night.
  > > 
  > > That's basically the same pattern I'm seeing, which suggests the problem
  > > is not the transatlantic hop, but either cross-country traffic or a local
  > > problem: the traceroute I got suggests the latter.
  > 
  > Then it is most likely to be the bandwidth available to the egcs.cygnus.com
  > server.  One possibility is to deny FTP access to this server (unless
  > it is from a mirror site) and give a list of alternative FTP locations
  > that a user could try in the deny response.
Note we already limit the number of open ftp connections (I think it just
got throttled back to 30).

When someone tries to log in and there's too many folks already on, the
system will give a list of mirrors to try.

jeff