[Neurodebian-users] Vanderbilt mirror error message

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2017, Bennet Fauber wrote:

> The Vanderbilt mirror at

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

> still appears to be down

what are the signs for you -- the same as for me, which is just hanging,
although I can easily visit that page and get the timestamp file (see
below)?

CCing Bennett, who was kind to host that mirror

> , 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


hm, regular wget works ok:

$> wget -q -S -O- http://masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/neurodebian/.timestamp 
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 21:02:34 GMT
  Server: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)
  Last-Modified: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 05:10:01 GMT
  ETag: "b-5462f3211fc40"
  Accept-Ranges: bytes
  Content-Length: 11
  Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
  Connection: Keep-Alive
1484543401


but if added to apt sources -- apt-get update just hangs  for a while and
eventually "Ign"ores that site:

Ign:51 http://masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/neurodebian data InRelease
Ign:52 http://masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/neurodebian sid InRelease


Bennett, does mirror work (as if added to apt sources) you yourself at
least? ;)  My IP ATM was 129.170.31.179  if you could check logs for
anything abnormal
  

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