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The FUNET Archive
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nic.funet.fi [128.214.6.100]
Central archive server of the Finnish University and Research Network
General information
The FUNET Archive is a service provided by Finnish University and
Research Network, a part of Centre for Scientific Computing. The
archive is maintained by almost one hundred volunteers from all
over Finland and is located at the Finnish State Computer Centre
in Espoo, quite near Helsinki.
FUNET provides datacommunications services for Finnish research
facilities, companies, archives, libraries, universities, techni-
cal education institutes and to some schools. It is responsible
for connecting Finland to the Internet with a 512 kbit/s line
(1993: 1024 kbit/s) to Stockholm, Sweden and it also connects the
members of FUNET together.
As Finland has always been in a "corner" of the Net it has been
noticed that Finland needs an archive server of it's own to reduce
the total traffic on the Stockholm line. However, since this par-
ticular service was set up the traffic from Finland to other parts
of the world has been always at it's upper limits.
The FUNET Archive
This service is provided mainly for people from Finland, other
Nordic countries or Estonia. The intention is to gather almost
everything there is available on the Net. About 90% of all files
here originate from FTP sites in the United States, and users from
abroad should always first search with Archie for FTP sites that
contain same files and are closer to user's machine.
The FUNET Archive stores only freely distributable data.
Hardware
Currently the archive machine is a Sun 4/630 MP. Picture of it is
available here as /pub/pics/gif/pics/comp/net/nic.funet.fi.gif.
Total formatted disk capacity is 20 gigabytes of which about 16
gigabytes is dedicated for the FTP archive. As far as we know this
is the largest freely accessible FTP archive in the Net.
Operating system
The operating system is standard SunOS 4.1.2. To maintain the
disk storage we are using Sun's Online: DiskSuite software. This
enables advanced features such as disk striping across several
physical disks for more performance and filesystems up to 1 tera-
byte. The whole 16 gigabyte FTP archive is one logical disk par-
tition over several physical disks with striping enabled.
Accessing the archive
The timezone in Finland is EET (GMT+2), and that means we wake up
ten hours before the Californians and seven hours before the New
Yorkers. One should do transfers according to these times, i.e.
after 16.00 Eastern European Time. (Add one hour in summer time.)
The FUNET Archive can be accessed using standard FTP protocol with
'anonymous' as user id and return mail address as password.
The archive machine currently has many other functions in addition
to just being a FTP server. It is also known as archie.funet.fi,
ftp.funet.fi, gopher.funet.fi, lists.funet.fi, wais.funet.fi and
www.funet.fi just to name a few. The machine also handles dozens
of mailing lists, provides gateways for several kinds of data-
communication and offers archive services for BITNET.
Contacting the maintainers
Choose the correct mailing list and send mail to it. The addresses
are of form {list name}@nic.funet.fi.
386ix-adm 386 UNIX software (pub/unix/386ix)
amiga-adm Commodore Amiga software (pub/amiga)
astro-adm Some (amateur) astronomy related material (pub/astro)
atari-adm Atari archive (pub/atari)
cae-sw-adm Some public CAE software/databases (pub/cae)
calculators-adm HP28, HP48, and other calculators (pub/misc/hp*)
csc-adm Material from the Centre for Scientific Computing
culture-adm pub/culture area
dx-adm pub/dx area
gif-adm GIF image archive maintainers (pub/pics/gif)
gnu-adm GNU material (pub/gnu)
graphics-adm /pub/graphics area
ham-adm Radio amateur related software and data (pub/ham)
jpeg-adm JPEG encoded image archive maintainers (pub/pics/jpeg)
kermit-adm /pub/kermit area
languages-adm /pub/languages area (programming languages)
linux-adm /pub/OS/Linus area maintainers
mac-adm Macintosh software (pub/mac)
mach-adm /pub/mach - Mach mikrokernel
minix-adm comp.os.minix archive et.al. (pub/minix)
misc-adm /pub/misc area
molbio-adm Molecular biology archive (pub/sci/molbio)
msdos-adm MS-DOS software (pub/msdos)
music-adm /pub/culture/music area
netinfo-adm /pub/netinfo area
next-adm /pub/NeXT area
os2-adm OS/2 software (pub/os2)
papers-adm /pub/sci/papers area
sci-adm Serious science material and databases (pub/sci)
sound-adm Various sound areas
tex-adm /pub/TeX area
unix-adm General UNIX (pub/unix)
vms-adm VMS software (pub/vms)
win-nt-adm MS-Windows NT (pub/win-nt)
xwindow-adm X Window System software (pub/X11)
Reporting problems
ftp-bugs FTP server bug report address
managers Anything archive related, that is not proper
for all areas' maintainers
problems Problems related to other parts of archive's software
maints All archive maintainers
The last one should not be used without a really good excuse.
Amiga area maintainers
Leonard `Vinsci' Norrgard, Åbo Akademi
vinsci@nic.funet.fi
Kimmo `Kimble' Ketolainen, University of Turku
Kimmo.Ketolainen@nic.funet.fi
Tero `Nix' Manninen, University of Oulu
nix@nic.funet.fi
with
Jarkko Hietaniemi, Helsinki University of Technology
jhi@nic.funet.fi
Amiga area information
The intention here at the FUNET Archive is to keep all files in a
large, well sorted hierarchy where maintainers can easily add new
files and directories to. We plan to keep newest versions of all
software and data available.
The archive receives Fish disks from Mike Schwager's archive at
ux1.cso.uiuc.edu and gets all new Aminet files via a daily batch
transfer. Other minor mirrorings and batch transfers exist.
Currently the size of the Amiga area is 800 megabytes.
921124 Kimmo.Ketolainen@nic.funet.fi