From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 27 15:44: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D88A37B423 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:43:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13ePv9-000MNF-00; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 00:43:23 +0200 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 00:43:23 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Roy Hooper Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Obtaining FreeBSD via Rsync Message-ID: <20000928004322.A85914@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <000b01c028d2$a6228fe0$6500000a@thetoybox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <000b01c028d2$a6228fe0$6500000a@thetoybox.org>; from rhooper@thetoybox.org on Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 06:31:15PM -0400 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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