Our mirrors

[Darren Evans]

I've been downloading 4.3 all day, when i checked at about 10.30am
this morning only ftp.freebsd.org had the .iso.  It would save me
time and effort to have it from a local node and not hog up the central
server.

I'm surprised there's no communication between the developers
and the mirror site owners so they can sync.

Could be the makings of a good tool, a pgp signed email to the mirror
user/script which invokes priority mirroring in anticipation in an
automated fashion.

Darren

At 20:06 22/04/01 +0100, Paul Civati wrote:

>The state of the UK mirrors is a bit depressing, I thought I'd use
>my work connection to grab the 4.3 ISO over night, but:
>
>ftp.uk.freebsd.org (plig)
>
>   Doesn't seem to have managed to get the full ISO across yet.
>
>ftp2.uk.freebsd.org (mirror.ac.uk)
>
>   Doesn't seem to have transferred anything at all yet.
>
>ftp3.uk.freebsd.org (Demon)
>
>   Doesn't seem to have transferred anything at all yet.
>
>ftp4.uk.freebsd.org (Sunsite UK)
>
>   Doesn't appear to be mirroring FreeBSD at all any more!
>
>   I think this is very bad!!..  I know they were running
>   out of disk space a little while ago, but..
>
>ftp5.uk.freebsd.org (karma.freebsd-uk.eu.org)
>
>   This server appears to be down.
>
>ftp6.uk.freebsd.org (storm.freebsd.org.uk)
>
>   /pub/FreeBSD is empty apart from a single 'doc' directory.
>
>Now, I know it's a bit of wishful thinking as 4.3 was only released
>on Friday and people run their servers on a best efforts basis..
>does anyone do any checks to make sure our mirrors are working?
>
>I could grab it from the US server, but I'd feel guilty. ;)
>
>-Paul-
>
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