UK mirrors

Geraint Edwards gedge-lists at yadn.org
Fri Feb 15 10:36:43 GMT 2008


Three months pass...

Jonathan Schneider <jon at axismilton.ltd.uk> said
		(on Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 01:52:54PM +0000):
> I've just checked out the five official uk mirrors for the main  
> FreeBSD site and found that
> 
> No. 1 is out-of-date (no mention of 7.0 or 6.3)
> No. 2 is dead
> No. 3 is ok
> No. 4 is dead
> No. 5 ends up at www1.uk... and looks ok
> 
> Who checks on mirrors and decides when it might be time to remove  
> them altogether ? Likewise for ftp and rsync ones which have been  
> known to be dead or out-of-date.

Anyone looking at fixing this?  Or know who is responsible?

I just went to http://www.uk.freebsd.org and the first item in "Upcoming Events" is "2007-03-03".

This will merely scare off new recruits (not to mention old folks).

Can we make 3 the one and only web mirror, please?



$ dig +short www.uk.freebsd.org
web008.pavilion.net.
212.74.4.8

$ dig +short www1.uk.freebsd.org
freebsd.m.flirble.org.
194.70.3.50

$ dig +short www2.uk.freebsd.org
karma.freebsd-uk.eu.org.
130.88.203.90

$ dig +short www3.uk.freebsd.org
storm.uk.freebsd.org.
194.242.157.42

$ dig +short www4.uk.freebsd.org
freebsd.plig.org.
195.40.122.238

$ dig +short www5.uk.freebsd.org

$ dig +short ns uk.freebsd.org
storm.freebsd.org.uk.
hobbes.bsd-dk.dk.
ns.tao.org.uk.
ns2.tao.org.uk.


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