On Friday 03 February 2006 03:58, Scott wrote: > [If there is a better forum for these questions, please advise and > I'll redirect. Thank you] > > > Is there any more current information than what can be found here?: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/01/msg00035.html > > That report is dated 8 January 2006 and it's now 3 February 2006. > Nothing has changed. The site is still down. > > I think that's some sort of record for web sites I've visited. :-) > > In the above referenced email I read: > > "packages.debian.org was disabled because the load of the machine > hosting it, saens.debian.org, which also is our only ftp.debian.org > at the moment, rose to 141.32, 135.82, 135.71, as on January 4th, due > to amongst others a cron job from packages.debian.org started in 2005 > still running -- and probably more. packages.debian.org was already > very slow for days, as multiple people noticed on IRC." > > What type of cron job could have that been (he didn't say)? And is > it *still* running? > > And what does "and probably more mean"? > > This all rather odd. > > Again, I don'' recall a web server out of commission this long > unless it was permanent. > > In other words, what's the status now? What are the problems that > prevent it from being back online? And lastly, is there any remote > estimate as to when it will be back up? > > Thanks. :) > > Curiously, Try http://pdo.debian.net I seen this on http://planet.debian.net/ which seems like a rather strange place to be mentioned. Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc
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