tug.ctan.org offline

[CTAN Announcements]

I am offline, pending an improvement of conditions. This includes
tug.ctan.org, www.ctan.org, and az.ctan.org on the interfaces http, ftp,
and rsync.

In case I do not come back, I would like to thank the people that I have
enjoyed working with over the years. I would also like to thank the TeX
Users Group, including the board and particularly including Karl, for
their sponsorship. And, I would be remiss if I didn't again acknowledge
the support provided by Saint Michael's College to me, and to the entire
TeX community, in bearing the Internet traffic.

Jim Hefferon

[Uwe Siart]

CTAN Announcements <ctan...@dante.de> writes:

> I am offline, pending an improvement of conditions. This includes
> tug.ctan.org, www.ctan.org, and az.ctan.org on the interfaces http, ftp,
> and rsync.
>
> In case I do not come back, I would like to thank the people that I have
> enjoyed working with over the years.

This sounds quite disastrous to me. Is there anyone who can (or is
willing to) explain the background and how the users community could
help to get this all-important service back online?

--
Uwe (shocked)

[Joseph Wright]

www.tex.ac.uk is functioning fine, so you can get at the archive there.
I'm sure more detail will appear soon.
--
Joseph Wright

[Michael Shell]

Ditto. I sure hope Jim is OK and wish him well. Do let us know if/how we
can help.

At any rate, if another hosting solution is not an option (I wonder what
bandwidth ctan.org requires, it probably is quite high and this is not
even considering the work to keep it maintained), perhaps the DNS settings
or (domain URL forwarding feature) for the ctan.org domain could be
changed to point to the tex.ac.uk (or other) server.

In this way, urls such as:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref/

would automatically map/alias to:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref/

This would not be a cure all, but it would help a lot of people.

Cheers,

Mike Shell

[zappathustra]

Sounds pretty frightening indeed.
Anyway, infinite thanks, Jim, for the job you did, and for the job let's
hope you'll be doing again soon.

Best,
Paul

[Robin Fairbairns]

Michael Shell <ne...@michaelshell.org> writes:

> On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:11:58 +0100
> Uwe Siart <use...@siart.de> wrote:
>
>> CTAN Announcements <ctan...@dante.de> writes:
>>
>> > I am offline, pending an improvement of conditions. This includes
>> > tug.ctan.org, www.ctan.org, and az.ctan.org on the interfaces http, ftp,
>> > and rsync.
>> >
>> > In case I do not come back, I would like to thank the people that I have
>> > enjoyed working with over the years.
>>
>> This sounds quite disastrous to me. Is there anyone who can (or is
>> willing to) explain the background and how the users community could
>> help to get this all-important service back online?
>
> Ditto. I sure hope Jim is OK and wish him well. Do let us know if/how we
> can help.
>
> At any rate, if another hosting solution is not an option (I wonder what
> bandwidth ctan.org requires, it probably is quite high and this is not
> even considering the work to keep it maintained), perhaps the DNS settings
> or (domain URL forwarding feature) for the ctan.org domain could be
> changed to point to the tex.ac.uk (or other) server.

we're looking for another hosting solution (we have an offer), but
haven't made any decision.

> In this way, urls such as:
>
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref/
>
> would automatically map/alias to:
>
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref/
>
> This would not be a cure all, but it would help a lot of people.

could be done. we have control over ctan.org domain (rather, tug
has).

will try to get something posted tomorrow.
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
my address is @cl.cam.ac.uk, regardless of the header. sorry about that.

[Joseph Wright]

On 30/01/2011 15:29, CTAN Announcements wrote:
> In case I do not come back, I would like to thank the people that I have
> enjoyed working with over the years. I would also like to thank the TeX
> Users Group, including the board and particularly including Karl, for
> their sponsorship. And, I would be remiss if I didn't again acknowledge
> the support provided by Saint Michael's College to me, and to the entire
> TeX community, in bearing the Internet traffic.

To add to what others have said, I'm sure the entire TeX community
appreciates the hard work you've done over many years.
--
Joseph Wright

[Marc van Dongen]

On Jan 30, 3:29 pm, CTAN Announcements <ctan-...@dante.de> wrote:

> I am offline, pending an improvement of conditions.  This includes

> tug.ctan.org,www.ctan.org, and az.ctan.org on the interfaces http, ftp,
> and rsync.

> [ snip ]

I'd like to join all others in wishing you all the best and thanking
you for your valuable services for the TeX community.

Regards,

Marc van Dongen

[Peter Flynn]

On 30/01/11 15:29, CTAN Announcements wrote:
> I am offline, pending an improvement of conditions. This includes
> tug.ctan.org, www.ctan.org, and az.ctan.org on the interfaces http, ftp,
> and rsync.
>
> In case I do not come back,

I look forward to welcoming you back...and in the meantime I want to
express my own thanks for all the hard work you have put into this over
the years.

All of which made me check my own CTAN search and fix the bugs. This is
not as comprehensive as ctan.org but it works as a package and file finder:

http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/ctan

///Peter