[Rd] Access to cran.us.r-project.org

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

rossini@blindglobe.net (A.J. Rossini) writes:

> >>>>> "DB" == Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu> writes:
> 
>     DB> I am the maintainer of one of the CRAN mirrors in the U.S.,
>     DB> cran.us.r-project.org.  It appears that this site has been
>     DB> inaccessible since Friday.
> 
>     DB> This has me puzzled because I can connect to the same machine
>     DB> through ssh and I can see that the http daemon (apache) is
>     DB> running.  In fact I can make an http connection from this
>     DB> machine to this machine and from other machines on any of our
>     DB> subnets to this machine.
> 
>     DB> My only theory is that something has changed at the interface
>     DB> between our network and external networds so that it no longer
>     DB> forwards incoming packets to port 80.  I can't check this
>     DB> easily myself because my outside connection is from a computer
>     DB> running Windows and I don't know anything about network
>     DB> diagnostics under Windows.
> 
>     DB> Could someone tell me a) Does this site indeed appear to be
>     DB> down?  b) If you try to trace the route to this site, where
>     DB> does the roadblock appear to be?  c) Is there a way of finding
>     DB> out if the problem is specific to port 80?
> 
> Traceroute gets there. 
> 
> 16  a0.uwisc.bbnplanet.net (4.24.223.22)  109.324 ms  109.628 ms
> 108.532 ms
> 17  r-peer-WNMadison-gw.net.wisc.edu (216.56.1.18)  110.048 ms
> 109.648 ms  109.921 ms
> 18  r-macc.net.wisc.edu (144.92.128.129)  111.303 ms  109.753 ms
> 109.904 ms
> 19  144.92.128.196 (144.92.128.196)  112.013 ms  112.497 ms  113.195
> ms
> 20  e1-2.foundry2.cs.wisc.edu (128.105.1.6)  111.985 ms  113.530 ms
> 112.534 ms
> 21  franz.stat.wisc.edu (128.105.174.95)  112.077 ms  112.941 ms
> 111.896 ms
> root@jeeves:~
> # # command used:    traceroute cran.us.r-project.org
> 
> 
> 
> telnet'ing to port 80 "hangs".  Lynx doesn't work either.
> 
> I could nmap it, but don't want to be viewed as a hacker... (I'd tell
> you the ip-address of the machine in advance).
> 
> I think it might be a local config problem?

developer.r-project.org is equally dead. For the same reason of
course. It *is* possible to connect locally, e.g.

lynx developer.r-project.org

works fine when issued on Franz. The apache server seems to have been
reset at 06:25 this morning and also at 11.19 yesterday.

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