FTP server outage blocks the gem installation (1.3.0)

[januszm]

Currently the ftp://ftp.freetds.org/pub/freetds/ is down and it causes all gem install tiny_tds -v "1.3.0" commands to fail. Unfortunately in environments like AWS Elastic Beanstalk (Amazon Linux, for some weird reason the freetds is still at 0.91) where servers can be recycled regularly it is causing major problems. In worst cases all servers go down.

Currently the installation process, at least for 1.3.x version depends on a single, external server. It seems like http://www.freetds.org/files/stable/ works. Would it be possible to update the 1.3.x branch to use at least 2 servers withing freetds.org ?

[wpolicarpo]

Why not upgrade to 2.x? Is there any special reason to stick with an older version?

[januszm]

2.x does not install FreeTDS. If I understand correctly, this "feature" was removed in 2.0.
In some environments, like Amazon Linux, FreeTDS 0.95+ is not available.

[januszm]

#431

This resolves the issue by changing FreeTDS source url from FTP to WWW mirror (similar change was made on 2.x branch already)