Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 00:43:23 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Roy Hooper <rhooper@thetoybox.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Obtaining FreeBSD via Rsync Message-ID: <20000928004322.A85914@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <000b01c028d2$a6228fe0$6500000a@thetoybox.org>; from rhooper@thetoybox.org on Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 06:31:15PM -0400 References: <000b01c028d2$a6228fe0$6500000a@thetoybox.org>
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On Wed 2000-09-27 (18:31), Roy Hooper wrote: > 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. The mirrors get to choose what they carry, so if they don't carry the ISO image, they probably didn't want to. The other stuff about rsync is fine. ;) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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