                         Melbourne (Australia)

TELNET ARCHIE.AU or 139.130.4.6
login: archie

If you have any problems with archie, send mail to ccw@archie.au

ANNOUNCING ARCHIE.AU - The AARNet Archie Server

Archie.au is The AARNet Archie Working Group's archie server. It runs 
"archie", a tool to help users locate information located on anonymous 
FTP sites around the world. To get started with archie, telnet to 
archie.au and login with userid archie.

Archie.AU also maintains copies (shadows) of many of the most popular 
anonymous ftp sites from around the world, making it unnecessary for 
users within Australia to access the remotely located system, improving 
response time and reducing overall network traffic.

This system, which has been funded by AARNet, will not only run the 
archie database, but will also support:

        +  Prospero (a remote file system)
        +  Ftp[-]Mail Gateway
        +  Sydney Uni's Finger Daemon
        +  MHSnet access (as archie.oz)
        +  WAIS

and is shadowing the following archives:

        +  Simtel-20 PC archives                From oak.oakland.edu
        +  Garbo's PC archives                  From garbo.uwasa.fi
        +  MIT's X11 Distribution               From export.lcs.mit.edu
        +  Terminator's Mac Archive
        +  RFC's                                From venera.isi.edu
        +  The latest GNU software              From prep.ai.mit.edu
        +  Kermit Distribution                  From watsun.cc.columbia.edu
        +  Graphics including GIFs              From wuarchive.wustl.edu
        +  Amiga                                From ab20.larc.nasa.gov
        +  The latest WAIS sources              From think.com
        +  comp.sources.unix                    From gatekeeper.dec.com
        +  comp.sources.games                   From ftp.uu.net
        +  comp.sources.reviewed                From ftp.uu.net
        +  comp.sources.x                       From ftp.uu.net
        +  comp.sources.misc                    From ftp.uu.net

Archie.AU is a dedicated machine with more than 5 Gbytes of disk space 
located on the AARNet backbone in Melbourne.  Response from archie will 
be better than from any site located outside Australia and better than 
many within Australia. Users can retrive files using FTP, MHSnet or the 
FTP[-]Gateway. Those using MHSnet to access this machine should use a
certain amount of sense when requesting lots of files. Don't flood your 
downstream sites.

If you think it would be beneficial to the Australian Academic and 
Research Community to have something else shadowed, or you have comments 
related to the archie server, send mail to

        archive-wg@itd.adelaide.edu.au

