Serious problems accessing cvs

[Nick Burrett]

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.

Nick.