Re: Oracle ww/ftp server
Date: 25 Jan 1995 20:51:08 -0600
Message-ID: <cheema.791087053_at_nntp.msstate.edu>
martin_at_pollux.edv.agrar.tu-muenchen.de (Martin Josko (DVS)) writes:
>The only chance for me to load Personal Oracle7 was the weekend.
>I think it's nearly impossible to get it during the week.
>SO, WHERE ARE THE MIRRORS ???
There are NO mirrors, as far as I know. None mentioned on the Oracle web
server either. I think they should immediately seperate the ftp server
machine from the web server machine. Currently they have both on the same
machine and when the ftp server is too busy serving files, people start
getting "Server is refusing connections" message. Web server itself is
probably not putting alot of load on the machine, its the ftp server
thats killing it.
To Oracle : Find a couple of Pentium or 486 machines and load them up with Linux and fire up wuftpd and set them up as mirror ftp servers and you will make alot people happy.
To sysadmin of www.oracle.com : All links to ftp-able files are pointing to www.oracle.com. Why were they hard coded like that and not to the more standard ftp.oracle.com ? You used the Microsoft approach when they were writing MS-DOS. Nobody will ever need anything more than 640K of memory. You probably thought that your machine will never get too heavily loaded and need seperation from the ftp server. Have fun, finding and changing all the links.
Mubashir Cheema Received on Thu Jan 26 1995 - 03:51:08 CET