cannot download Fedora spins due to resolver issues

[Sijis Aviles]

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd at acm.org> wrote:

> On 2011-09-08 23:22, Kévin Raymond wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd at acm.org>
> wrote:
> >> I'm not sure this is the right place to report this, but here goes.
> >>
> >> When I try to download any of the LXDE or XFCE spins of Fedora 15, from
> >> http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options, the URI points to
> >>
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/linux/releases/15/Spins/.
> ..
> >>  All these get redirected (for me, anyway) to
> >>
> http://archive.nl.eu.kernel.org/fedora-alt/spins/linux/releases/15/Spins/.
> ..
> >>  However, archive.nl.eu.kernel.org is currently not resolvable.  After
> a
> >> 1 minute timeout the "host" program tells me:
> >> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> >>
> >> It is not easy to find an alternative direct download link.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Sjoerd Mullender
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > In case of the mirror you get is unreachable, you can choose one there:
> > http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/15/
>
> I know that page, but thanks anyway.  However, you can't find spins
> there, or at least, they are not indicated.
>
> >
> > Here is one mirror which has all spins:
> >
> http://ftp.byfly.by/pub/fedoraproject.org/alt/spins/linux/releases/15/Spins/
>
> Thanks, that helps.
>
> The point of my message was two-fold.
>
> A server that fedoraproject.org points to doesn't work.  Perhaps you can
> do something about it?  (Wake up the responsible person, or make the
> website point somewhere else?)
>
> It is hard to find an alternative for downloading a spin (if you can't
> or don't want to use a torrent).  It's easy to find mirrors (the page
> you referred to), but that page doesn't indicate whether the mirror has
> spins available.
>
>
> --
> Sjoerd Mullender
>
>
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Sjoerd,

You should be able to find alternate version of spins at
https://spins.fedoraproject.org/.

Sijis
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