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From: roelofs@nas.nasa.gov (Cave Newt)
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Subject: Re: Problem in FTP to SIMTEL20
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Date: 4 Dec 90 03:24:45 GMT
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rss@doe.carleton.ca (Roger Shum) writes:

>I used to be able to ftp to simtel 20 with problem. But for the 
>past week or so, whenever I ftp to simtel 20, it keeps saying
>'connection timed out'. Does anyone out there have the same problem
>or it is just my bad luck?

Network problems.  Here's a message from Keith (apologies if Keith 
has already posted a reply...if so, it hasn't gotten to THIS site yet):

>Greg, the core gateways are sick.  SIMTEL20 has been up, but
>unreachable from the NSFNET side.

Give 'em some time, and maybe check out wuarchive or some other mirror
if you don't need something that was posted in the last couple days.

Greg