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From: goes@oregon.uoregon.edu
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Subject: Re: Frustrated with logon into SIMTEL? Ever want to get around?
Message-ID: <249@oregon.uoregon.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 89 18:46:10 GMT
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In article <4380@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu>, deng@shire (Mingqi Deng) writes:
> In article <16714@cisunx.UUCP> pdccs@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Patrick Champion) writes:
>>
>>	When does simtel ever slow down?  It seems that everytime I log on
>>that there are too many anonymous users on and I get thrown off.  Some feeding
>>frenzy!
>>
> 
> Frustrated as you have been, I modified the anto-ftp program availabe
> at SIMTEL so that it will try SIMTEL every 60 seconds until it gets a
> file I want. It does that automatically. Now, I almost forget when was
-- 
And you're proud of this?? It seems to me this would just aggravate the problem
folks are having getting on to SIMTEL.  This network equivalent of
demon-dialing doesn't seem like an answer.  I have another suggestion.  Every 2
weeks or so I run a batch file from our mainframe, set up to run at about 1:30
A.M., requesting the latest files I want from SIMTEL.  If it doesn't get
everything, I run it the next night.  Works like a charm, runs when network
traffic is light, and keeps from tying up the SIMTEL FTP ports for every piddly
file request.  It's also cheaper as our system time is less expensive at night,
and I don't have to babysit the process.  A sane alternative to demon-dialing.
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