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DISCUSSION Tarkan Erimer 3 participants 5 messages Oct 17, 2011 – Oct 24, 2011

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Tarkan Erimer

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Hi,

When the finger service will be restored on ftp.kernel.org ?

linux-gpq3:~ # finger @ftp.kernel.org
finger: Connection refused

Thanks,

Tarkan

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Quoted 4 lines · Tarkan Erimer

When the finger service will be restored on ftp.kernel.org ?

linux-gpq3:~ # finger @ftp.kernel.org
finger: Connection refused

http://kernel.org
" Aug 21, 2003: Please don't use finger.kernel.org for any sort of automatic monitoring. The number of automatic bots hitting this port is causing the finger daemon to shut down more often than not. The same information is available from
http://www.kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner. "

The finger_banner page appears to be current, so perhaps switch to this:

curl http://kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner

-porpen

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Quoted 7 lines · On 10/17/2011 12:03 PM, wrote:

http://kernel.org " Aug 21, 2003: Please don't use finger.kernel.org for any sort of automatic monitoring. The number of automatic bots hitting this port is causing the finger daemon to shut down more often than not. The same information is available from
http://www.kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner. " The finger_banner page appears to be current, so perhaps switch to this: curl
http://kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner -porpen

OK. Thanks for your response.

Cheers,

Tarkan

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Quoted 1 line · On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 05:03:07AM -0400,   wrote:

The finger_banner page appears to be current,

It doesn't look like it here:

$ curl http://kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner
...
The latest snapshot 3 version of the Linux kernel is:         3.1-rc4-git2
The latest mainline 3 version of the Linux kernel is:         3.1-rc4

...

$ date
Mon Oct 17 14:50:59 CEST 2011
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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Quoted 5 lines · Borislav Petkov
Quoted 1 line · On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 05:03:07AM -0400,   wrote:

The finger_banner page appears to be current,

It doesn't look like it here:

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$ curl http://kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner
...
The latest snapshot 3 version of the Linux kernel is:         3.1-rc4-git2
The latest mainline 3 version of the Linux kernel is:         3.1-rc4
...
$ date
Mon Oct 17 14:50:59 CEST 2011
...
Boris.

It seems both the finger_banner file and http://kernel.org home page both list -rc4 as the current 'mainline'.
So, the rebuild of kernel.org has not yet hit the scripts that update those files.

Give it time, those sysadmins have been rather busy lately.

Cheers!
-porpen