cambridge has a new ctan machine; it's now been up and working on the addresses cam.ctan.org, ftp.tex.ac.uk (ftp protocol) and rsync.tex.ac.uk (rsync protocol) for well over 24 hours. even the most dilatory name server should get you to the new machine, now.
this is the third machine that has served ctan since it came to cambridge, and it's not come a moment too soon -- the old machine was providing rather poor performance.
the machine is a dual 2.6ghz xeon with 2gbyte of memory and lots of disc. we believe it will support applications at an acceptable level for some time.
the machine was purchased with a grant from the uk tex users' group, and the ctan team is also grateful to the university of cambridge computer laboratory for continuing to provide a friendly home to ctan.
the observant will have noticed that i did not mention www.tex.ac.uk, above. that is still being hosted by the laboratory's main web server. there are (ahem) structural difficulties with moving the web service, and we decided to go live with what we could, as soon as i could make at least something work reliably,
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team