[Ukfreebsd] ftp.plig.net

Simon Dick simond at irrelevant.org
Fri Jan 27 17:21:53 GMT 2012


On 24 January 2012 11:54, O'Connor, Kevin
<KevinO'Connor at merseyfire.gov.uk> wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ukfreebsd-bounces at uk.freebsd.org [mailto:ukfreebsd-
>> bounces at uk.freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Dr Josef Karthauser
>> Sent: 24 January 2012 00:00
>> To: UK FreeBSD Users
>> Subject: Re: [Ukfreebsd] ftp.plig.net
>>
>> 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.

I've used plig.net for ages and it's been much appreciated, it's
amazing how handy local mirrors are when you're doing things like
fetching an ISO into a colo in Japan, not sure I'd want to try from
the master server :)


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