[Ukfreebsd] ftp.plig.net

[Vincent Hoffman]

On 23/01/2012 23:59, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote:
> On 21 Jan 2012, at 19:21, Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
>
>> On 21 January 2012 17:11, Dr Josef Karthauser <joe at tao.org.uk> wrote:
>>> Christiaan has just asked me drop ftp.uk.freebsd.org too... he's been mirroring us for years, but has moved on and wants to shut the server down.
>>>
>>> I'll be removing the ftp record in the next few days.
>>>
>>> Joe
>> Shame, thanks Christiaan for a very fast mirror service.
>> Joe, university of kent mirrors FreeBSD, perhaps re-point the record
>> to them assuming its ok to so?
>> ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/pub/FreeBSD
>>
> Do we even need mirrors these days? Once upon a time it was slow to the USA and so the main FTP site needed to be mirrored to be useful to us in the UK. Is that still true?
>
> Mark Blackman has offered to setup a mirror if it's useful.
>
> What do you all think? Should we ask him to put the effort in? Will it be used, or not?
I thought mirrors were at least partly to provide some relief on the
hardware and bandwidth of the primary sites. I always use
ftpX.uk.freebsd.org
Very sad to see plig go, many thanks to Christiaan for a great service
I've used lots for many many years and good wishes for the future.

Vince
>
> Joe
>
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