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Aircraft manual instal?

Postby StuartC » Mon Jan 01, 2018 1:54 pm

Has the address for the repository changed?

I was using
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/flightgear/ftp/Aircraft/

to manually download aircraft, but the past few times I have tried, its not available.
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Re: Aircraft manual instal?

Postby wkitty42 » Mon Jan 01, 2018 6:09 pm

that is the correct url but there appears to be some sort of routing problem...
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2018 Jan 01  12:02:53 -0500
myuser@mymachine:~$ traceroute mirrors.ibiblio.org
traceroute to mirrors.ibiblio.org (152.19.134.44), 64 hops max
  1   192.168.100.1  0.154ms  0.114ms  0.130ms
  2   40.136.240.2  17.909ms  12.187ms  15.594ms
  3   40.136.114.166  15.964ms  20.884ms  11.208ms
  4   40.130.35.152  16.731ms  16.494ms  18.357ms
  5   40.128.248.158  23.966ms  23.845ms  19.918ms
  6   40.130.35.239  31.948ms  31.946ms  31.938ms
  7   129.250.207.21  30.050ms  29.748ms  31.896ms
  8   63.146.27.245  39.161ms  25.614ms  27.688ms
  9   *  *  *
 10   65.120.78.78  35.931ms  35.957ms  31.960ms
 11   128.109.19.90  33.049ms  38.848ms  35.960ms
 12   152.19.255.66  35.839ms  35.945ms  33.049ms
 13   152.19.255.70  37.194ms  37.620ms  35.968ms
 14   152.19.255.253  35.927ms  35.890ms  33.096ms
 15   152.19.134.44  38.802ms  34.079ms  37.234ms

2018 Jan 01  12:03:22 -0500
myuser@mymachine:~$ ftp mirrors.ibiblio.org
ftp: connect: No route to host
ftp> quit

2018 Jan 01  12:03:45 -0500
myuser@mymachine:~$ telnet mirrors.ibiblio.org 80
Trying 152.19.134.44...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host

the address that i get for this site, 152.19.134.44, comes back as one from UNC which is not too far up the road from our location...
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2018 Jan 01  12:03:50 -0500
myuser@mymachine:~$ whois 152.19.134.44                     

#
# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
# available at: https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html
#
# If you see inaccuracies in the results, please report at
# https://www.arin.net/public/whoisinaccuracy/index.xhtml
#


#
# The following results may also be obtained via:
# https://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=152.19.134.44?showDetails=true&showARIN=false&showNonArinTopLevelNet=false&ext=netref2
#

NetRange:       152.19.0.0 - 152.19.255.255
CIDR:           152.19.0.0/16
NetName:        NCREN-B19
NetHandle:      NET-152-19-0-0-1
Parent:         NET152 (NET-152-0-0-0-0)
NetType:        Direct Assignment
OriginAS:       AS36850
Organization:   University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-1)
RegDate:        1994-08-07
Updated:        2013-03-05
Ref:            https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-152-19-0-0-1


OrgName:        University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
OrgId:          UNC-1
Address:        440 W. Franklin Street
Address:        CB#1150
City:           Chapel Hill
StateProv:      NC
PostalCode:     27599-1150
Country:        US
RegDate:        1991-06-06
Updated:        2017-02-24
Ref:            https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/UNC-1


OrgTechHandle: THAXT2-ARIN
OrgTechName:   Thaxton, Adair
OrgTechPhone:  +1-919-445-0116
OrgTechEmail:  sthaxton@email.unc.edu
OrgTechRef:    https://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/THAXT2-ARIN

OrgAbuseHandle: ISG10-ARIN
OrgAbuseName:   IT Security Group
OrgAbusePhone:  +1-919-445-9393
OrgAbuseEmail:  security@unc.edu
OrgAbuseRef:    https://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/ISG10-ARIN

OrgTechHandle: SHUED1-ARIN
OrgTechName:   Shue, Danny
OrgTechPhone:  +1-919-445-0121
OrgTechEmail:  dyshue@unc.edu
OrgTechRef:    https://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/SHUED1-ARIN

OrgTechHandle: ZU52-ARIN
OrgTechName:   University of North Carolina
OrgTechPhone:  +1-919-962-6503
OrgTechEmail:  hostmaster@unc.edu
OrgTechRef:    https://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/ZU52-ARIN


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"You get more air close to the ground," said Angalo. "I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up."
"Why not?" said Gurder.
"Dunno. It's frightened of heights, I guess."
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Re: Aircraft manual instal?

Postby StuartC » Tue Jan 02, 2018 8:04 pm

Still cant get on it today.
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Re: Aircraft manual instal?

Postby wkitty42 » Tue Jan 02, 2018 8:08 pm

yeah, i know... i've posted to the mailing list as well as to @ibiblio on twitter...
"You get more air close to the ground," said Angalo. "I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up."
"Why not?" said Gurder.
"Dunno. It's frightened of heights, I guess."
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Re: Aircraft manual instal?

Postby StuartC » Thu Jan 04, 2018 11:58 am

any response ? its still not accessable.
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Re: Aircraft manual instal?

Postby dilbert » Thu Jan 04, 2018 5:46 pm

Don't know cause of problem, but it seems the same for any and all mirrors, and been that way since last weekend.
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