Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:54:23 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> To: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net> Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp/www/whatever mirror Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0101231051500.13610-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101221629020.3955-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com>
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On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > > find your closest mirror - i don't recomment hitting ftp.freebsd.org > > directly. then start mirroring using rsync or spegla or mirror.pl > > to your local system. > > I guess trial and error for this one. i can't help much.. unless you want to spring for tickets for me to the US in which case i can help a lot :-) just doa few traceroutes to ftpX.freebsd.org and pick a close one. > I'm in CA, basically, I'm going to use it for our internal purposes as > well as anyone else that might be interested. well, depending on your bandwidth, you might or might not want to be advertised. > Not a master at working with rsync, but I guess it's time I learned. rsync is trivial to get installed, is much more secure than a ftp server and offers a lot better mirroring support in terms of bandwidth than ftp. to this day it is a constant annoyance there is no rsync support, even if only for downstream mirrors (not end users) on ftp.freebsd.org :-( > our traffic is so async, I can continually update the server and it won't > affect us at all. cool. best of luck with getting your mirror up -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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