From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 29 02:38:56 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA19084 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 02:38:56 -0700 Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA19078 ; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 02:38:49 -0700 Received: (from dfr@localhost) by minnow.render.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA29629; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 10:39:37 +0100 Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 10:39:36 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Gary Palmer cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rude shock with U.K. mirrors In-Reply-To: <21971.804404158@westhill.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 28 Jun 1995, Gary Palmer wrote: > In message <199506290451.FAA04975@whisker.internet-eireann.ie>, "Jordan K. Hubb > ard" writes: > > 1. ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/BSD/FreeBSD does not contain 2.0.5. > > I'll poke the ftp guys - i've dealt with them before. This would be good. It is only two hops away from me :-) > > > 2. unix.hensa.ac.uk/pub/walnut.creek/FreeBSD doesn't exist. > > It's `/mirrors/walnut.creek'. Does our MIRROR.LIST really say /pub? Oops. > > > 3. src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/unix/FreeBSD couldn't be verified; it's > > dead at the moment. > > src.doc is dead? That's bad. It's like the main ftp server in the UK :-( I think src.doc is running Slowlaris 2.4 and it doesn't work very well. Hensa is a bit better but I had to get most of 2.0.5 direct from wcarchive :-( > > >This is all rather sad. Is there nothing we can do to perhaps increase > >the level of support in the U.K.? With 2 core team members either in > >or from that country, it even seems a tad embarassing! :( > > unix.hensa want' mirroring us at all until I started poking around, > and the last time I spoke to the ftp.demon guys there was a mirror > script running... :-( unix.hensa.ac.uk:/mirrors/walnut.creek/FreeBSD/2.0.5-RELEASE seems to work. Does anyone know where they got their des distribution from? -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 251 4411 FAX: +44 171 251 0939