gdm stuff

[Remco Lubbers]

On Wed, 11 May 2005 15:20:45 +0200, Auke Kok said:

> Moritz Heiber wrote:
>  
>  >On Wed, 11 May 2005 07:48:49 +0200
>  >"Remco Lubbers" <remsys at linux-adept.nl> wrote:
>  >
>  >  
>  >
>  >>I'm just not able to connect to that server. It does resolve, but
>  >>that's it! Even in a browser, going to http://www.oasis-open.org/ just
>  >>keeps me waiting. I have this behaviour on different places, using
>  >>different nameservers and connecting through different IAPs :?
>  >>    
>  >>
>  >
>  >I'm lost .. it works everywhere else .. even on espresso (which shares
>  >the same datacenter ;-). Proxy or network related maybe?
>  >  
>  >
>  
>  In recent history I've found their www services extremely flaky. I've 
>  uploaded backup tarballs to the cache URL. Hopefully this provides some 
>  backup functionality for people.

So these are to be found automatically if the default URL turn's out
not to be available or does the exhaustive-mirrors option have to be
enabled?

Remco