Re: ROOT security issues

From: Fons Rademakers <Fons.Rademakers_at_cern.ch>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 01:37:40 +0200


Hi Christian,

   Alas, the FTP port to root.cern.ch is still blocked, however the FTP site can also be reached via http with the URL:

http://root.cern.ch/download/

Cheers, Fons.

On 23 Jun 2012, at 19:50, cstrato <cstrato_at_aon.at> wrote:

> Dear Fons,
> 
> Thank you for this information. I see that the ROOT website is already available. Sadly, the site "ftp://root.cern.ch/" can still not be reached.
> 
> Best regards,
> Christian
> 
> 
> On 6/22/12 4:00 AM, Fons Rademakers wrote:
>> Hi Christian,
>> 
>> after an attack we've rebuild and restructured the root.cern.ch server
>> and split it services on a number of machines. This should mitigate the
>> total outage problem in the future. We hope to be back in the air by
>> Friday afternoon.
>> 
>> Cheers, Fons.
>> 
>> On 21/06/2012 20:46, cstrato wrote:

>>> Dear Fons,
>>>
>>> Since I have just received an email from a user of my Bioconductor
>>> package
>>> "xps" that he is not able to download ROOT due to security issues, I
>>> would
>>> like to ask you the following questions:
>>>
>>> 1, Do you know when the ROOT website will be available again?
>>>
>>> 2, It seems that roottalk is also affected since I no longer receive any
>>> emails from roottalk?
>>>
>>> 3, Did you make any official statements to ROOT users somewhere on the
>>> CERN
>>> website?
>>>
>>> 4, Most importantly:
>>> Is there any official mirror website, especially for
>>> "ftp://root.cern.ch/root" from where you can download the ROOT source
>>> code
>>> and binaries?
>>>
>>> The user did mention the following website:
>>> http://blog.philippklaus.de/2012/06/root-cern-mirror/
>>> however, this is not an official mirror site and contains only the latest
>>> source.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Christian
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>>
> Received on Sun Jun 24 2012 - 01:34:58 CEST

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