Re: Re: ROOT security issues

Dear Fons,

Thank you for mentioning this workaround.

Best regards
Christian

On 6/24/12 1:37 AM, Fons Rademakers wrote:
> 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 - 11:45:08 CEST