Automatix Down?

The Mad Rapper · 1 Oct 2007 at 18:55

I am in Zambia at the moment on business, so have no idea if it's just the dodgy wireless connection in this hotel, but I can't connect to the Automatix web site. Can someone please visit www.getautomatix.com and tell me if it's up or not?

If it isn't up can anyone tell me what the problem is?

riddlermarc · 1 Oct 2007 at 19:31

Looks like it's timing out for me too dude, I'm in S.England

No ping and a tracert (from Windows):

C:\Users\marc>tracert www.getautomatix.com

Tracing route to getautomatix.com [216.120.255.9]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 3 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.0.0.1
2 11 ms 9 ms 9 ms 10.151.184.1
3 11 ms 10 ms 8 ms rdng-t2cam1-a-ge98.inet.ntl.com [62.253.122.57]

4 9 ms 10 ms 9 ms winn-t3core-1a-ge-011-0.inet.ntl.com [195.182.17
6.149]
5 8 ms 10 ms 9 ms win-bb-a-so-130-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.184.113]

6 10 ms 26 ms 11 ms gfd-bb-b-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.130]

7 11 ms 11 ms 12 ms sl-gw11-lon-11-0.sprintlink.net [213.206.156.101
]
8 12 ms 21 ms 12 ms sl-bb20-lon-11-0.sprintlink.net [213.206.128.56]

9 80 ms 80 ms 78 ms sl-bb27-nyc-9-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.9.164]
10 78 ms 79 ms 79 ms sl-bb24-nyc-8-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.13.173]

11 78 ms 79 ms 82 ms sl-gw37-nyc-1-0-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.13.66]

12 109 ms 174 ms 79 ms sl-timewarner-17-0.sprintlink.net [160.81.189.94
]
13 113 ms 115 ms 115 ms 66-126-65-30.static.twtelecom.net [66.162.65.30]

14 114 ms 114 ms 116 ms 66-126-65-30.static.twtelecom.net [66.162.65.30]

15 119 ms 116 ms 112 ms nycp-sw-hr3550-1.hrnoc.net [216.120.224.28]
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.

(Code tags made it go scroll barry, you get the idea from the Quotes above!)..

The Mad Rapper · 1 Oct 2007 at 19:40

Bah! It's so unreliable, their site is often down - they need a better host IMHO

Thank you

for checking for me, I am grateful!

riddlermarc · 1 Oct 2007 at 19:54

No probs

Sometimes when I've tried to update a new box the site has been down or *really* slow* so I know how it feels. They need a decent mirror or two I think..

SiriusB · 1 Oct 2007 at 21:32

You shouldn't use Automatix anyway. It has been out of favour for a while as it is known to break dependancies and such.

The Mad Rapper · 1 Oct 2007 at 22:29

SiriusB said:
You shouldn't use Automatix anyway. It has been out of favour for a while as it is known to break dependancies and such.

So what's the replacement then?

SiriusB · 1 Oct 2007 at 22:39

In Ubuntu there is an Add/Remove utility for searching and installing applications. [different from Synaptic].

The Automatix issues could be Ubuntu/Debian-only.