[GRASS-web] South African GRASS Mirror

Thu Dec 12 02:30:30 PST 2013

Hi Markus,

I can resolve the DNS without a problem and browsing to 
http://grass.mirror.ac.za provides the site as expected.

 From inside our network:
<snip>
$ nslookup grass.mirror.ac.za dns1.tenet.ac.za
Server:		dns1.tenet.ac.za
Address:	155.232.135.5#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	grass.mirror.ac.za
Address: 155.232.191.103
</snip>

 From Google's DNS:
<snip>
$ nslookup grass.mirror.ac.za 8.8.8.8
Server:		8.8.8.8
Address:	8.8.8.8#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	grass.mirror.ac.za
Address: 155.232.191.103
</snip>

A telnet to port 80 snippet:
<snip>
$ telnet grass.mirror.ac.za 80
Trying 155.232.191.103...
Connected to grass.mirror.ac.za.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /index.html HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Via: 1.1 ROUWKOOP-SERVER
Connection: close
Proxy-Connection: close
Content-Length: 25530
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:26:46 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
ETag: "52a91951-63ba"
Server: nginx/1.5.3
Last-Modified: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 02:02:57 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en-US" 
xml:lang="en">
<head>
   <link rel="canonical" href="http://grass.osgeo.org/" />

     <title>GRASS GIS - Home</title>

Output truncated
</snip>

When ftp'ing to it, I find a similar result:

<snip>
$ lftp grass.mirror.ac.za
lftp grass.mirror.ac.za:~> ls
drwxr-xr-x    3 0          0                  28 Dec  7 23:35 "http:
drwxr-xr-x    2 0          0                  23 Dec  8 18:52 &
drwxr-xr-x    4 0          0                4096 Dec 11 09:35 addons
drwxr-xr-x    3 0          0                8192 Dec 11 09:35 announces
drwxr-xr-x    8 0          0                  76 Dec  8 02:51 awstats-icon

Output truncated.
</snip>

Please re-test and advise if you're still experiencing issues.
If so, can you please supply some debugging output, i.e. the IP from 
where you're attempting to connect, a traceroute/ping to 
grass.mirror.ac.za (just mirror.ac.za 155.232.191.200 if you're having 
DNS resolution errors), etc.

Thanks in advance,
Patrick Holahan

On 2013/12/09, 10:44 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
> Hi Patrick Holahan,
>
> thanks for your efforts. The name http://grass.mirror.ac.za does not
> resolve here (or apache issue),
> could you please verify?
>
> thanks
> Markus Neteler
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Patrick Holahan <patrickh at tenet.ac.za> wrote:
>> Hi Grass Mirror management,
>>
>> We run a GRASS mirror accessible directly (http://grass.mirror.ac.za), or
>> off our base mirror page, http://mirror.ac.za or http://www.mirror.ac.za.
>>
>> We support rsync, HTTP and FTP. Please add us to your list of mirror
>> databases.
>>
>> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us (TENET) on
>> mirroradmin at tenet.ac.za
>>
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Patrick Holahan
>> _______________________________________________
>> grass-web mailing list
>> grass-web at lists.osgeo.org
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-web

-- 
Patrick Holahan

TENET
Senior Network Engineer

Web: http://www.tenet.ac.za
GSM: +27 79 523 5555