[Neurodebian-users] Vanderbilt mirror error message

[Bennet Fauber]

The Vanderbilt mirror at

    http://masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/neurodebian

still appears to be down, and it does not appear to be marked as
broken on the status page at

    http://neuro.debian.netmirrors_status.html?highlight=mirrors

As of Mon, 16 Jan, 2017, the status page said

    us-tn USA-TN (Vanderbilt) 5 hours 40 minutes OK

If I'm the only one who can't get updates from it, I'll stop bothering
you, but if this is a more general failure, perhaps it should be
removed as an option and something sent to the ND mailing list
alerting people to its non-functioning state?

Sorry for the noise,  -- bennet


On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko
<debian at onerussian.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2016, Bennet Fauber wrote:
>
>> The Vanderbilt site still appears to be down.  What kind of check does
>> the Neurodebian site do that causes it to think that it is OK?  A
>> simple ping?
>
> well -- gory story is
>
> $> wget -O- http://masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/neurodebian/.timestamp
> --2016-11-16 18:27:32--  http://masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/neurodebian/.timestamp
> Resolving masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu (masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu)... 129.59.90.79
> Connecting to masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu (masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu)|129.59.90.79|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Redirect
> Location: http://129.59.80.20/neurodebian [following]
> --2016-11-16 18:27:32--  http://129.59.80.20/neurodebian
> Connecting to 129.59.80.20:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
> Location: http://129.59.80.20/neurodebian/ [following]
> --2016-11-16 18:27:32--  http://129.59.80.20/neurodebian/
> Reusing existing connection to 129.59.80.20:80.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> ...
>
>
> so -- note that http://masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/neurodebian/.timestamp was
> redirected to http://129.59.80.20/neurodebian , and then our check failed
> to convert it properly and simply crashed without updating the list of
> mirrors...  it is fixed now and mirror is marked as BRK (Broken)
>
>
>> If others can get to it, and the problem is with our site being
>> blacklisted or something, may I know who the Vanderbilt mirror contact
>> is?
>
> we are in touch, will be fixed soon'ish I guess.  being at SfN, only now
> got to reply ;)
>
>> If there is someplace else I should post this question, please let me know.
>
> this was a good place to ask.
>
> --
> Yaroslav O. Halchenko
> Center for Open Neuroscience     http://centerforopenneuroscience.org
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