www/174526: main website (freebsd.org/www.freebsd.org) is unreachable from Nova Scotia Universities

[Simon L. B. Nielsen]

The following reply was made to PR www/174526; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simon at FreeBSD.org>
To: Joseph Mingrone <jrm at ftfl.ca>
Cc: Peter Wemm <peter at wemm.org>, FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org, 
	"FreeBSD.org clusteradm" <clusteradm at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: www/174526: main website (freebsd.org/www.freebsd.org) is
 unreachable from Nova Scotia Universities
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 15:19:45 +0000

 On 8 January 2013 15:15, Joseph Mingrone <jrm at ftfl.ca> wrote:
 > On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Peter Wemm <peter at wemm.org> wrote:
 >> Hmm. We had a similar report about IPv6 reachability from the same
 >> general area in Canada recently too.  I'll poke around a little bit
 >> and see if I can see something.  Otherwise I'll file a ticket with the
 >> netops folks to have them look at the bgp routing announcements.
 >>
 >
 > That was the network administrator I contacted here at Dalhousie
 > University, although he doesn't seem convinced it's an IPv6 issue?
 >
 > Has there been any progress resolving this issue?  I'm sorry to nag
 > (especially if it's not a problem on the FreeBSD end), but the research in
 > our group is quite reliant on FreeBSD (see
 > http://awarnach.mathstat.dal.ca/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=resources:home )
 > and we are unable to reach things like the source code repository,
 > mailing lists and the bug reports (all links from the mirrors (e.g.
 > www5) seem to point back to the main site).
 
 I can't personally really do anything more with the network part, but
 for the source code part you can get that from elsewhere, e.g.
 svn0.us-east.freebsd.org. Mailing lists in theory has other non
 FreeBSD.org mirrors, but they are less useful. For GNATS bug reports
 you are probably out of luck currently.
 
 -- 
 Simon L. B. Nielsen