[seqfan] Re: Links to the Encyclopedia of Combinatorial Structures are now working again

[Neil Sloane]

maybe it is a temporary holdup

if it doesn't go away in a few days, tell me,
and I will write to Frederich Chyzal (?) again

Best regards
Neil

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On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 2:38 PM, P. Michael Hutchins <pmh232 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This may be a reappearance of the problem we had with their server a while
> ago, although this round's error message is better ;-) .
>
> Neil did some magic back then to get the problem tracked down to a down
> server, and got someone at INRIA to fix it.  Perhaps that will work again.
>
> I've been trying to get hold of Frederick to find a way around problems
> with this server, etc., but haven't gotten a reply after two attempts.
>
> I think they don't have the funds to undertake anything significant, and I
> guess that nothing we've proposed (*) has been acceptable to them.
>
> (*:  copying their database, getting a table that gives a URL for each of
> their magic numbers, being a mirror site, ...)
>
> I'm in the mode of not bothering Frederick any more, so I don't know what
> to do now.
>
> Neil?
>
>
>   -- Michael
>
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 5:39 AM, Hugo Pfoertner <yae9911 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  When I click on something like
>>
>> http://ecs.inria.fr/services/structure?nbr=1017 in
>> https://oeis.org/A010734
>> , I get:
>> Service Unavailable
>> The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to
>> maintenance
>> downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
>>
>> Same behavior for other values of nbr. Does "temporarily" mean what it
>> says, or is it now a persistent problem?
>>
>> Regards
>> Hugo Pfoertner
>>
>> > > Dear Sequence Fans, There are over 900 links in the OEIS like this one
>>
>> > > (in
>> > > > A000166):
>> > > >
>> > > > INRIA Algorithms Project, <a href="
>> > > > http://ecs.inria.fr/services/structure?nbr=21">Encyclopedia of
>> > > > Combinatorial Structures 21</a>
>> > > >
>> > > > Some time recently they all stopped working.
>> > > >
>> > > > But now they are all working again, thanks to
>> > > > Frédéric Chyzak  (frederic.chyzak at inria.fr)
>> > > > who was able to restart the machine where this software runs.
>> > > >
>> > > > Let me know if any of the links are still broken.
>> >
>>
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