From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 27 15:33: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thetoybox.org (cr641914-a.slnt1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.210.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 662D937B424 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:32:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from litebrite (dhcp2 [10.0.0.101]) by thetoybox.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA01388 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 18:42:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rhooper@thetoybox.org) Message-ID: <000b01c028d2$a6228fe0$6500000a@thetoybox.org> From: "Roy Hooper" To: Subject: Obtaining FreeBSD via Rsync Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 18:31:15 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It would be _very_ nice to be able to obtain FreeBSD via anonymous rsync. At least one mirror supports this already (xyz.lcs.mit.edu). This would also be the ideal way in which to have the master FTP site mirrored to secondary mirror sites, as rsync can be easily setup to authenticate. If not already the case, I might also suggest that mirrors be able to talk to a central mirror server, as frequently, the ISO images don't get to the rest of the mirrors for many many days, especially when cdrom.com is overloaded. Roy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message