> On 26.08.2010 17:10, Arnd Hannemann wrote:
> > Am 26.08.2010 15:37, schrieb Jiri Kosina:
> >> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> I wrote a simple python script that tells me that a new kernel version
> >>> appeared. The problem is that it is based exactly on this what appears on the
> >>> webpage so sometimes it resolves the server IP that the version has changed,
> >>> despite the fact that it is not true. Which server is the master server?
> >>>
> >> I guess that simply running
> >>
> >> finger @kernel.org
> >>
> >> will give you exactly the information you are looking for which much less
> >> pain of connecting to www server, parsing html, etc.
> >>
> >
> > Not sure if this is still accurate:
> >
> >> Aug 21, 2003: Please don't use *finger.kernel.org* for any sort of
> >> automatic monitoring. The number of automatic bots hitting this port
> >> is causing the finger daemon to shut down more often than not. The
> >> same information is available from
> >>
http://www.kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner
> >> <http://kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner>.
>
> Moreover it is written as the above.
