[development] drupal.org timing out

[Dries Buytaert]

On 10 Jul 2006, at 07:01, Jeremy Epstein wrote:
> It's not just you, sime - I have been experiencing similar problems as
> well. drupal.org has been working pretty well for me, but
> groups.drupal.org and cvs.drupal.org (in particular) have been
> extremely unreliable for me.
>
> I was trying to access CVS contrib a few nights ago, and was
> completely unable to connect. I was on IRC at the time, and I asked
> Dries if he could reproduce a similar problem. He was unable to
> reproduce any such problem. I ended up SSHing into my university
> server, where I was able to perform a CVS update just fine.
>
> I think that it could have something to do with both of us being in
> Australia (although my uni server is also in Australia). I have
> contacted my ISP (iiNet), and they were unable to identify any problem
> on their side - they said that if it's just one particular site that
> I'm having problems with, then it must be a problem with the server
> hosting that site. I'm not so sure.
>
> Anyway, I hope that we can sort out this weird mystery, and that we
> can get it all to work reliably once more!

http://cvs.drupal.org/ has been reliable for me.  If the problem  
persists, or if other people experienced similar problems, please  
report it on the infrastructure mailing list.  Thanks.  Either way,  
I'll check with OSL just to make sure.

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