----------------- The FUNET Archive ----------------- 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