From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753983Ab0HZPKP (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:10:15 -0400 Received: from slowhand.arndnet.de ([88.198.19.76]:37289 "EHLO mail.unitix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752012Ab0HZPKN (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:10:13 -0400 Message-ID: <4C7683D3.5090500@nets.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:10:11 +0200 From: Arnd Hannemann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100713 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jiri Kosina CC: Piotr Hosowicz , LKML Subject: Re: Which kernel.org WWW is the master server? References: <4C6D4864.2040002@example.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 26.08.2010 15:37, schrieb Jiri Kosina: > On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Piotr Hosowicz wrote: > > >> I wrote a simple python script that tells me that a new kernel version >> appeared. The problem is that it is based exactly on this what appears on the >> webpage so sometimes it resolves the server IP that the version has changed, >> despite the fact that it is not true. Which server is the master server? >> > I guess that simply running > > finger @kernel.org > > will give you exactly the information you are looking for which much less > pain of connecting to www server, parsing html, etc. > Not sure if this is still accurate: > Aug 21, 2003: Please don't use *finger.kernel.org* for any sort of > automatic monitoring. The number of automatic bots hitting this port > is causing the finger daemon to shut down more often than not. The > same information is available from > http://www.kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner > . Regards, Arnd