Fw: failure notice

[Chris Howells]

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Hi,

On Friday 13 September 2002 2:08 pm, Robert E A Harvey wrote:
> 'KDE2.2.2 (Older)' there is a line: 'SuSE Linux 7.2 (README,
> noarch, i386, HP/Intel IA-64)'.  The README link seems to think
> it's going to http://download.kde.org/stable/2.2.2/SuSE/README ,
> but it's wrong.
>
> > I followed the link README and ended up at:
>
> http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/kde/stable/2.2.2/SuSE/README
>
> > which was
> >        404 Not Found
> >        The requested URL /pub/kde/stable/2.2.2/SuSE/README was

2.2.2 is out of date enough to have been removed from the server, I guess.

> not found on this server.
>
> >        Apache/1.3.23 Server at www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu Port 80
> >
> > So I tried the same link again, and ended up at:
>
> http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/.admin/missing/server.php?name=GD.TUWIEN.A
> C.AT
>
> > and again, and ended up with a 'file not found' from
> >     http://ftp.du.se/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/2.2.2/SuSE/README
> >
> > Whilst a world tour is informative, and quite fun, it isn't
>
> what I was expecting, nor probably what you meant!

This is actually to be expected. It's due to the load balancing DNS which is 
http://download.kde.org -- the DNS will randomly connect you to a mirror.

- -- 
Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris at chrishowells.co.uk, howells at kde.org
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