From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 21 11:11:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25AEC154F9; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 11:11:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA23524; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 11:11:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA11686; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 11:11:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 11:11:17 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200001211911.LAA11686@vashon.polstra.com> To: jdp@polstra.com Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article , I wrote: > To choose a mirror site, try pinging the mirrors in your country. I have been reminded that a few mirrors (cvsup8 in particular) filter pings. Don't take ping failures as a certain indication that the server is down. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message