[Ukfreebsd] ftp.plig.net

[Dr Josef Karthauser]

On 24 Jan 2012, at 11:54, O'Connor, Kevin 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?
> 
> Personally I'd like to see the UK mirror kept as it is the one I target
> whenever possible.
> That said I suppose with modern hardware and fast networks the need to
> have mirrors scattered throughout the world is depreciated but I would
> be sad to see it go. 

The the record plig has been dropped from the DNS now. We currently have one cvsup server (with Robert) and an ftp server with mirrorservice.org.uk. It looks like Mark Blackman is flirting with bringing some more servers on-line and so will probably augment these in time.

I hope everything's stable now.

Joe