Thanks, Corey, My apologies, should have checked with another DNS resolver.
I shall report this DNS fault to our site admin. Thanks for your speedy reply. Peter From: Corey Quinn [mailto:co...@sequestered.net] Sent: 07 June 2012 18:24 To: Chiu, Peter (STFC,RAL,RALSP) Cc: scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov Subject: Re: Download servers ftp[x].scientificlinux.org unreachable On Jun 7, 2012, at 10:17 AM, <peter.c...@stfc.ac.uk<mailto:peter.c...@stfc.ac.uk>> wrote: Hello, I suspect this probably has been reported, but just in case it has not. The download servers ftp, ftp1 and ftp2 has been unreachable from most of today. Always check DNS from an alternate resolver before reporting an issue: cquinn@quinntendo ~ % host ftp.scientificlinux.org<http://ftp.scientificlinux.org> ftp.scientificlinux.org<http://ftp.scientificlinux.org> is an alias for linux9.fnal.gov<http://linux9.fnal.gov>. linux9.fnal.gov<http://linux9.fnal.gov> has address 131.225.110.147 cquinn@quinntendo ~ % host ftp1.scientificlinux.org<http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org> ftp1.scientificlinux.org<http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org> is an alias for linux21.fnal.gov<http://linux21.fnal.gov>. linux21.fnal.gov<http://linux21.fnal.gov> has address 131.225.110.41 "Works for me." -- Corey -- Scanned by iCritical.