Re: Windows binary downloads/www.enterprisedb.com off the net

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> 2010/3/7 Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>:
>> Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
>>> Hi all!
>>>
>>> It seems like that EDB has some serious issues with (non) availability
>>> of its main domain (looks like somebody forgot to renew the domainname
>>> and is now waiting for getting the delegation added back to the TLD or
>>> such).
>>> This means that it is not impossible for our users to actually download
>>> the windows binary packages - in the interest of redundancy it would
>>> probably be a good idea if we at least mirrored those packages on our
>>> own existing mirror network as well.
>>> This would allow us to at least offer people an alternative - just in
>>> case something like this happens again...
>> I talked to Jim Mlodgenski of EnterpriseDB and he is working on the
>> problem with other EDB employees. :-O
>
> I think you are missing the point Stefan is trying to make. We're all
> sure EDB will fix the problem. But it outlines the fact that the
> ability for our community to be able to access the official community
> binaries relies solely on infrastructure the community does not
> control - in this caes it was the edb domain, it could also be the
> webservers or whatever.
>
> For example, the core RPMs are available both at the pgsqlrpms project
> *and* through the main mirroring network. We recommend people use the
> YUM repository on pgsqlrpms.org, but they are still available through
> the main web/ftp system (without the nice automated features and
> instructions, but the core packages are there) if it goes down.

yeah that is pretty much what I was trying to say - we don't even have
the official binaries on a community box right now, it seems sensible
that we should mirror them just as we do with the other stuff so we can
actually react in case something happens again.

Stefan