CDS services downtime

[Petr Skoda]

I would like to open one important issue.

Today for me did not work SPLAT-VO as the resolver seaseme built-in the 
splat was not working.

Margarida Castro Neves claims that the other built-in resolvers as CADC or 
ESO do not work for a long time already.

As I understand all below are just Vizier copies not Simbad.
The only one is harvard Simbad - but it does not show resolver link

If I go to http://simbad.harvard.edu/simbad/sim-fref

and select other /resolver

it redirects back to

http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Sesame


So is there a Seasame mirror ?

And how you have built the alternative resolver in your clients ?

We need it to modify SPLAT-VO Resolver selection menu.


BTW - I remember when the CDS downtime several years ago - when I was 
exactly giving two hour tutorial about VO using SPLAT.
That time I could continue immediately by switching to CADC resolver.
Is it still working ?



Anyway I think that the multiple global mirror of such crucial service as 
Seasame is  essential and shoudl be discussed here.

Best regards,

Petr



> Dear colleagues,
>
> We would like to make you aware of a scheduled down-time for the main 
> Strasbourg site for CDS services (http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr, 
> http://cds.unistra.fr) on Monday April 3, starting at 7h00 CET (5h00 GMT) and 
> lasting for 6 to 10 hours.
> This will impact all services hosted in Strasbourg : Simbad, VizieR, the 
> Aladin images server,
> XMatch, the CDS Registry...
>
> This is an unavoidable down-time due to major electrical work that requires 
> all power to our site to be shut down for that time.
>
> We recommend the use of our mirror sites during this period: Simbad at CfA 
> <http://simbad.cfa.harvard.edu/simbad/>, or VizieR at CfA 
> <http://vizier.cfa.harvard.edu/viz-bin/VizieR>, Tokyo 
> <http://vizier.nao.ac.jp/viz-bin/VizieR>, CADC 
> <http://vizier.hia.nrc.ca/viz-bin/VizieR>, IUCAA in India 
> <http://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR>, Beijing Obs. 
> <http://vizier.china-vo.org/viz-bin/VizieR>, or SAAO in South Africa 
> <http://viziersaao.chpc.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR>.
>
> We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.
>
> -- 
>
>   (((    Sebastien Derriere     sebastien.derriere at astro.unistra.fr
>  (. .)   Observatoire de Strasbourg       Phone +33 (0) 368 852 444
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