Re: Periodic connection timed out when downloading ncurses

[Sam James]

> On 2 Oct 2022, at 12:04, Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> wrote:
> [snip].
> 
>       It is also available via anonymous FTP at the GNU distribution site
> 
>       ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/ .
> 
> which at the time were the canonical locations.  The GNU https site is
> a mirror (or whatever) of ftp.gnu.org
> 
> [...]
> 
> The mirror site doesn't support ftp access, so that aspect was never an
> issue.  It also is less capable in throughput, and doesn't come with a
> service agreement.
> 
> LFS ought to recommend more than one location, because each of the above
> (invisible-island.net, invisible-mirror.net and gnu.org) has problems
> for different users.  Since LFS uses only the stable release, it could
> recommend all three locations, letting its users determine what works
> best.
> 
I'm assuming the answer is no, but is there any chance the development
Patches could be thrown up on the GNU mirrors?

Best,
sam

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